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M.DCCC.XLIII. 


FOR  THE  PUBLICATION  OF 

HISTORICAL   AND    LITERARY    REMAINS 

CONNECTED   WITH   THE   PALATINE   COUNTIES   OF 

LANCASTER   AND    CHESTER. 


COUNCIL  FOE  THE  YEAE  18G8-9. 

JAMES  CROSSLEY,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

Wicc-lBvtSiaent 

The  Rev.  F.  R.  RAINES,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester,  Vicar  of 

^lihirow,  and  Rural  Dean. 

Counctl. 
WILLIAM  BEAMONT,  Esq. 

The  Very  Rev.  GEORGE  HULL  BOWERS,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Manchester. 
R.  C.  CHRISTIE,  Esq.,  M.A. 
The  Rev.  THOMAS  CORSER,  M.A.,  F.S.A..  Rector  of  Stand,  and  Rural 

Dean  of  Prestwich. 
JOHN  HARLAND,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 
WILLIAM  ADAM  HULTON,  Esq. 
WILLIAM  LANGTON,  Esq. 
EGERTON  LEIGH,  Junr.,  Esq. 

The  Rev.  JOHN  HOWARD  M  ARSDEN,  BD.,  F.R.G.S.,  Canon  of  Manchester. 
The  Rev.  JAMES  RAINE,  M.A.,  Preb.  of  York,  Fellow  of  Durham  University. 

ARTHUR  H.  HEYWOOD,  Esq. 

l^otTDiarD  ^ccrftarg. 

R.   HENRY   WOOD,  Esq.,   F.S.A.,   F.R.G.S., 

Mem.  Corr.  Soc.  Antiq.  de  Normandie. 


RULES  OF  THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 

1.  That  the  Society  shall  be  limited  to  three  Imndred  and  fifty  members. 

2.  That  the  Society  shall  consist  of  members  being  subscribers  of  one  pound  annually,  such  subscrip- 
tion to  be  paid  in  advance,  on  or  before  the  day  of  general  meeting  in  each  year.  The  first  general  meeting 
to  be  held  on  the  23rd  day  of  March,  1843,  and  tbe  general  meeting  in  each  year  afterwards  on  the  1st  day 
of  March,  unless  it  should  fall  on  a  Sunday,  when  some  other  day  is  to  be  named  by  the  Council. 

3.  That  the  affairs  of  the  Society  be  conducted  by  a  Council,  consisting  of  a  permanent  President  and 
Vice-President,  and  twelve  other  members,  including  a  Treasurer  and  Secretary,  all  of  whom  shall  be 
elected,  the  first  two  at  the  general  meeting  next  after  a  vacancy  shall  occur,  and  the  twelve  other 
members  at  the  general  meeting  annually. 

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5.  That  the  accounts  of  the  receipts  and  expenditure  of  the  Society  be  audited  annually,  by  three 
auditors,  to  be  elected  at  the  general  meeting;  and  that  any  member  who  shall  be  one  year  in  arrear  of 
his  subscription,  shall  no  longer  be  considered  as  belonging  to  the  Society. 

6.  That  every  member  not  in  arrear  of  his  annual  subscription,  be  entitled  to  a  copy  of  each  of  the 
works  published  by  the  Society. 

7.  That  twenty  copies  of  each  work  shall  be  allowed  to  the  editor  of  the  same,  in  addition  to  the 
one  to  which  he  may  be  entitled  as  a  member. 

Applications  and  communications  to  be  addressed  to  the  President,  6,  Booth  Street,  Piccadilly, 
Manchester,  or  to  the  Honorary  Secretary,  9  Blackfriars. 


4  Publications  of  the  Chetham  Society. 

1852-3. 

TOL. 

XXVIII.  The  Jacobite  Trials  at  Manchester  in  1694.     Edited  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.   -py.  xc,  132. 

XXIX.  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  I.    The  Pearls  of  Derby  and  the  Verse  Writers  and  Poets  of  the  six- 
teenth and  seventeenth  centuries.    By  Thomas  IIeywood,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    jJ2^.  64. 

XXX.  Documents  relating  to  the  Priory  of  Penworthani,  and  other  Possessions  in  Lancashire  of  the 
Abbey  of  Evesham.    Edited  by  W.  A  Hulton,  Esq.    p/>.  Ixxviii,  136. 


853-4- 


XXXI.  The  Stanley  Papers,  Part  II.  The  Derby  Household  Books,  comprising  an  account  of  the 
llousehold  Regulations  and  Expenses  of  Edward  and  Henry,  third  and  fourth  Earls  of  Derby  ; 
tc^ethcr  with  a  Diary,  containing  the  names  of  the  guests  who  visited  the  latter  Earl  at  his  houses 
in  Lancashire  :  by  William  Fai-rington,  Esq.,  the  Comptroller.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines, 
M.A.,  F.S.A.    'pp.  xcviii,  247.    Five  Flutes. 

XXXII.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.  Edited  by  Richard  Parkinson, 
D.D.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I.  Part  I.     jyp.  x,  320.    Portrait. 

XXXIII.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills  and  Inventories  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  Chester. 
The  First  Portion.    Edited  by  the  Rev.  G.  J.  Piccope,  M.A.     pp.  vi,  196. 


854-5. 


XXXIV.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.    Vol.  I.  Part  II.    pp.  321-639. 

XXXV.  The  House   and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.    Edited  by  John 
Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    Part  I.    jjp.  232.     Frontispiece. 

XXVI.  The  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  Worthington.    Vol.  II.  Part  I.    pp.  248. 


.855-6. 


XXXVII.  Chetham  Miscellanies.    Vol.  II.    Edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq.  :  containing 

The  Rights  and  Jurisdiction  of  the  County  Palatine  of  Chester,  the  Earls  Palatine,  the  Chamber- 
lain, and  other  Officers.     Edited  by  Joseph  Brooks  Yates,  F.A.S.,  G.S.,  and  P.S.    pp.  37. 

Tlie  Scottish  Field.  (A  Poem  on  the  Battle  of  Flodden.)  Edited  by  John  Robson,  Esq.    pp.  xv,  28. 

Examynatyons  towcheynge  Cokeye  More,  Temp.  Hen.  VIII.  in  a  dispute  between  the  Lords  of  the 
Manors  of  Middleton  and  RadclyfFe.     Communicated  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    pj).  30. 

A  History  of  the  Ancient  Chapel  of  Denton,  in  Manchester  Parish.  By  the  Rev.  John  Booker, 
M. A.,  F.S.A.    j>^i.  viii,  148.     Three  Plates. 

A  Letter  from  John  Bradshawe  of  Gray's  Inn  to  Sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme.  Edited  by  William 
Langton,  Esq.    pp.  b. 

Facsimile  of  a  Deed  of  Fichard  Bussel  to  Church  of  Evesham  (for  insertion  in  vol.  xxx^. 

XXXVIII.  Bibliographical  Notices  of  the  Church  Libraries  of  Turton  and  Gorton  bequeathed  by 
Humphrey  Chetham.    Edited  by  Gilbert  J.  French,  Esq.    pp.  199.   Illustrated  Title. 

XXXIX.  The  Farington  Papers.   Edited  by  Miss  ffaringxon.  pp.  xvi,  179.  Five  x>lates  of  Signatures. 


Publications  of  the  Chetha7n  Society.  5 

1856-7. 

VOL. 

XL.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.    Vol.  II.  Part  I.    fp.  326  and  two 

Indexes. 

XLI.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.  Part  II.  pp.  233-472. 
Portrait. 

XLII.  A  History  of  the  Ancient  Chapels  of  Didshury  and  Chorlton,  in  Manchester  Parish,  including 
Sketches  of  the  Townships  of  Didshury,  Withington,  Burnage,  Heaton  Norris,  Reddish,  Levenshulme, 
and  Chorlton-cum-Hardy:  together  with  Notices  of  the  more  Ancient  Local  Families,  and  Particulars 
relating  to  the  Descent  of  their  Estates.  By  the  Rev.  John  Booker,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  pp.  viii  337- 
Seven  lUustrations. 


1857-8. 

XLIII.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.  Part  III  vn  x 
473-776.  ■     ^^' 

XLIV.  The  Private  Journal  and  Literary  Remains  of  John  Byrom.  Vol.  II.  Part  II.  pp.  327-654. 
Byrom  Pedigrees,  pp.  41  and  three  folding  sheets;  Index,  pp.  v. 

XLV.  Miscellanies :  heing  a  selection  from  the  Poems  and  Correspondence  of  the  Rev.  Thos.  Wilson, 
B.D.,  of  Clitheroe.  With  Memoirs  of  his  Life.  By  the  Rev.  Canon  Raines,  M.  \.,  F.S.A.  pp  xc, 
230.    Two  Plates. 


1858-9. 


XLVI.  The  House  and  Farm  Accounts  of  the  Shuttleworths  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.  Part  IV.  (Con- 
clusion),   pp.  777-1171. 

XLVII.  A  History  of  the  Ancient  Chapel  of  Birch,  in  Manchester  Parish,  including  a  Sketch  of  the 
Township  of  Rusholme  :  together  with  Notices  of  the  more  Ancient  Local  Families,  and  Particulars 
relating  to  the  Descent  of  their  Estates.  By  the  Rev.  John  Booker,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  pp.  viii,  255. 
Four  Plates. 

XLVIII.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Collection  of  Tracts  for  and  against  Popery  (published  in  or  about  the 
reign  of  James  II.)  in  the  Manchester  Library  founded  by  Humphrey  Chetham;  in  which  is 
incorporated,  with  large  Additions  and  Bibliographical  Notes,  the  whole  of  Peck's  List  of  the 
Tracts  in  that  Controversy,  with  his  References.  Edited  by  Thomas  Jones,  Esq.  B.A.  Part  I. 
pp.  xii,  256. 


1859-60. 


XLIX.  The  Lancashire  Lieutenancy  under  the  Tudors  and  Stuarts.  The  Civil  and  Military  Govern- 
ment of  the  County,  as  illustrated  by  a  series  of  Royal  and  other  Letters;  Orders  of  the  Privy  Council, 
the  Lord  Lieutenant,  and  other  Authorities,  Sec,  &c.  Chiefly  derived  from  the  Shuttleworth  MSS. 
at  Gawthorpe  Hall,  Lancashire.    Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    Part  I.      pp.  cxx,  96. 

Seven-Plates. 

L.  The  Lancashire  Lieutenancy  under  the  Tudors  and  Stuarts.    Part  II.    (Conclusion),    pp.  97-333. 

LI.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills  and  Inventories  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  Chester.  The  Second 
Portion,    pp.  vi,  283. 


6  Publications  of  tJte  ChetJiam  Society. 

I  860-1. 

TOt. 

LII.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica:  or,  A  Bibliographical  and  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  a  portion  of  a  Col- 
lection of  Early  English  Poetry,  with  occasional  Extracts  and  Remarks  Biographical  and  Critical. 
By  the  Kev.  Thomas  Corser,  M. A.,  F.S.A.,  Rural  Dean;  Rector  of  Stand,  Lancashire  j  and  Vicar 
of  Norton,  Northamptonshire.     Part  I.     fji.  xi,  208. 

LIII.  Mamecestrc:  being  Chapters  from  the  early  recorded  History  of  the  Barony,  the  Lordship  or 
Manor,  the  Vill  Borough  or  Town,  of  Manchester.  Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  Vol.  I. 
j)|).  207.    Froudspieee. 

LIV.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills  and  Inventories  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  Chester.  The  Third 
Portion.    (Conclusion),    pp.  v,  272. 

1861-2. 

LV.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.     Part  II.     pp.  vi,  209-456. 
LVI.  Mamecestre.    Vol.11,    ^ijj- 209-431. 

LVII.  Chetham  Miseellanies.    Vol.  III.    Edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq.  :  containing 

On  the  South  Lancashire  Dialect,  with  Biographical  Notices  of  John  Collier,  the  author  of  Tim 
Bohhin.     By  Thos.  Heywood,  Esq.      pp.  84. 

Rentale  de  Cokersand  :  being  the  Bursar's  Rent  Roll  of  the  Abbey  of  Cokersand,  in  the  County 
Palatine  of  Lancaster,  for  the  year  1501.  Printed  from  the  Original.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R. 
Rai.ves,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xviii,  46. 

The  Names  of  all  the  Gentlemen  of  the  best  callinge  w"^in  the  countye  of  Lancastre,  whereof  choyse 
ys  to  be  made  of  a  c'ten  number  to  lend  vnto  her  Ma''''  moneye  vpon  privie  seals  in  Janvarye  1588. 
From  a  manuscript  in  the  possession  of  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.     pp.  9. 

Some  Instruction  given  by  William  Booth  Esquire  to  his  stewards  John  Carington  and  William 
Rowcrofte,  upon  the  purchase  of  Warrington  by  Sir  George  Booth  Baronet  and  William  Booth  his 
son,  A.D.  MDCxviii.    Communicated  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.     pp.  8. 

Letter  from  Sir  John  Seton,  Manchester  y'=  25  M'ch,  ]  643.  Edited  by  Thomas  Heywood,  Esq., 
F.S.A.     pp.  15. 

The  Names  of  eight  hundred  inhabitants  of  Manchester  who  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  Charles 
II.  in  April,  1679.      Communicated  by  John  Harland,  F.S.A.     pp.  8. 

The  Pole  Booke  of  Manchester,  May  y'  22''  1690.  Edited  by  William  Langton,  Esq.  pp.  43. 
Map  and  folding  Table. 


1862-3. 


LVIII.  Mamecestre.     Vol.  III.     (Conclusion.)     pp.  si,  433-627. 

LIX.  A  History  of  the  Chantries  within  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster  :  being  the  Reports  of  the 
Royal  Commissioners  of  Henry  VIII.,  Edward  VI.,  and  Queen  Mary.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  F.  R. 
Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I.    pp.  xxxix,  168. 

LX.  A  History  of  the  Chantries  within  the  County  Palatine  of  Lancaster,  &c.  Vol.  II.  (Conclusion), 
pp.  169-323. 


1863-4. 


General  Index  to  the  Remains  Historical  and  Literary  published  by  the  Chetham  Society,  vols.I-XXX. 
pp.  viii,  168. 

LXI.    I.  Abbott's  Journal.   II.  An  Account  of  the  Tryalls  &c.  in  Manchester  in  1694.    Edited  by  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Alexander  Goss,  D.D.    pp.^\-s.,  32;  xxi,  42;  5. 

LXII.  Discourse  of  the  Warr  in  Lancashire.    Edited  by  William  Beamont,  Esq.    pp.  xxxiv,  164. 
Two  Plates. 


Publications  of  the  Chetham  Society.  7 

1864-5. 

VOL. 

LXIII.  A  Volume  of  Court  Leet  Records  of  the  Manor  of  Manchester  in  the  Sixteenth  Century. 
Compiled  and  edited  by  John  Harland,  F.S.A.    ff.  xix,  208.    Frontispiece. 

LXIV.  A  Catalogue  of  the  Collection  of  Tracts  for  and  against  Popery,  Part  II.  To  which  are  added 
an  Index  to  the  Tracts  in  both  editions  of  Gibson's  Preservative,  and  a  reprint  of  Dodd's  Certamen, 
Utriusque  Ecclesise.    Edited  by  Thomas  Jones,  Esq.  B.A.    pp.  x,  269,  17. 

LXV.  Continuation  of  the  Court  Leet  Records  of  the  Manor  of  Manchester,  a.d.  1586-1602.  By  John 
Harland,  Esq.    pp.  viii,  128. 

1865-6. 

LXVI.  The  Stanley  Papers.     Part  III.    Private  Devotions  and  Miscellanies  of  James  seventh  earl  of 
Derby,  K.G.,  with  a  Prefatory  ^Memoir  and  Appendix  of  Documents.      Edited  by  the  Rev.  Canon 
Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.    Vol.1,    pp.  i-ccviii.    Four  Plates. 

LXA^'II.  The  Stanley  Papers.     Part  III.    Vol.  2.     pp.  ccix-cccxcv.    Four  Plates. 

LXVIII.  Collectanea  relating  to  Manchester  and  its  Neighbourhood,  at  various  periods.  Compiled 
arranged  and  edited  by  John  Haeland,  F.S.A.    Vol.  I.    pp.  viii,  258. 


1866-7. 


LXIX.  The  Admission  Register  of  the  Manchester  School,  with  some  Notices  of  the  more  distinguished 
Scholars.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Finch  Smith,  M.A.,  Rector  of  Aldridge,  Staffordshire, 
and  Rural  Dean.     Vol.  I.,  from  a.d.  1730  to  a.d.  1775.     pp.  viii,  253. 

LXX.  The  Stanley  Papers.    Part  III.    Vol.3.     (Conclusion.)     pp.  112  and  65.    Frontispiece. 

LXXI.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica.    Part  III.    pp.  x,  282. 


867-8. 


LXXII.  Collectanea  relating  to  Manchester  and  its  Neighbourhood.    Vol.  II.    pp.  viii,  252. 

LXXIII.  The  Admission  Register  of  the  Manchester  School,  with  some  Notices  of  the  more  dis- 
tinguished Scholars.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  Jeremiah  Finch  Smith,  M.A.,  Rector  of  Aldridge, 
Staffordshire,  and  Rural  Dean.     Vol.  II.,  from  a.d.  1776  to  a.d.  1807.    pp.  v,  302. 

LXXIV.  Three  Lancashire  Documents  of  the  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  Centuries,  namely  :  I.  The 
Great  De  Lacy  Inquisition,  Feb.  16,  1311.  II.  Survey  of  1320-1346.  III.  Custom  Roll  and  Rental 
of  the  Manor  of  Ashton-under-Lyne,  1421.     Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.    pp.  xiii,  140. 


1868-9. 


LXXV.  Lancashire  Funeral  Certificates.  Edited  by  Thomas  William  King,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  York 
Herald.  With  additions  by  the  Rev.  F.  R.  Raines,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vice-President  of  the  Chetham 
Society,    pp.  viii,  102. 


Charles  Simms  and  Co.,  Printers,  Manchester. 


REMAINS 

HISTORICAL  &  LITERARY 

CONNECTED  WITH  THE  PALATINE  COUNTIES  OF 

LANCASTER  AND   CHESTEE, 

PUBLISHED  BY 

THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 


VOL.   LXXV. 


PRINTED  FOR  THE  CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 
M.DCCC.LXIX. 


COUNCIL  FOR  1868-9. 

JAMES  CROSSLEY,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  President. 

REV.  F.  R.  RAINES,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester, 

Vice-President. 
WILLIAM  BEAMONT,  ESQ. 

THE  VERY  REV.  GEORGE  HULL  BOWERS,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Manchester. 
R.  C.  CHRISTIE,  Esq.,  M.A. 
REV.  THOMAS  CORSER,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
JOHN  HARLAND,  Esq.,  F.S  A. 
W.  A.  HULTON,  Esq. 
WILLIAM  LANGTON,  Esq. 
MAJOR  EGERTON  LEIGH. 

REV.  JOHN  HOWARD  MARSDEN,  B.D..  F.R.G.S.,  Canon  of  Manchester. 
REV.  JAMES  RAINE,  M.A.,  Prebendary  of  York. 
ARTHUR  H.  HEYWOOD,  Esq.,  Treasurer. 
R.  HENRY  WOOD,  ESQ.,  F.S.A.,  Hon.  Secretary. 


LANCASHIRE   FUNERAL 
CERTIFICATES. 


LANCASHIRE    FUNERAL 
CERTIFICATES. 


EDITED  BY 

THOMAS  WILLIAM   KING,  Esq.,  F.S.A., 


YORK   HERALD. 


WITH  ADDITIONS  BY  THE 

REV.   F.  R.  RAINES,  M.A.,  F.S.A., 

VICE-PRESIDENT  OF  THE  CHETHAM 
SOCIETY. 


PRINTED   FOR  THE   CHETHAM  SOCIETY. 
M.DCCC.LXIX. 


INTEODUCTION. 


THE  abstract  of  the  Earl  Marshal's  order  regarding 
Funeral  Certificates,  here  printed,  precludes  the  neces- 
sity of  further  observation  on  the  subject ;  but  perhaps  it 
may  be  remarked  that  it  is  questionable  whether  the  cer- 
tificates were  taken  on  the  mere  request  of  the  executors 
or  survivors  of  the  deceased,  or  whether  the  Kings  of  arms 
of  each  province,  respectively,  were  authorised,  nolens  volens, 
to  enforce  the  order  of  the  Earl  Marshal  in  every  or  any 
case  in  which  the  deceased  was  of  gentilitial  rank.  The 
probability  seems  to  be  that  the  practice  followed  the  wish 
of  the  family  survivors  rather  than  that  the  officers  of  arms 
compelled  them  to  conform  to  the  Earl  Marshal's  orders. 
This  opinion  is  strengthened  from  the  comparatively  few 
certificates  on  record  throughout  the  kingdom.  Very  few 
indeed  are  preserved  even  of  peers,  these  being  exclusively 
under  Garter's  jurisdiction,  and  apparently  seldom  recorded 
in  the  college  of  arms.  There  is  no  doubt,  however,  that 
the  Kings  of  arms  had,  and  did  exercise,  jurisdiction  over 
the  armorial  ensigns  used  at  funerals,  whether  the  formal 
attendance  at  funeral  solemnities  was  observed,  or  cer- 
tificates of  the  state  of  the  family  of  the  defunct  were 
taken,  as  many  instances  occur  of  the  exercise  of  such 
jurisdiction,  and  are  noticed  in  the  college  books. 


VI  INTRODUCTION. 

It  may  be  thought  that  some  of  the  foot-notes,  extending 
over  several  pages,  are  longer  than  the  subject-matter  re- 
quired; but  this  amplification  arises  from  a  desire  not  to 
leave  any  thing  unwritten  which  should  really  appear,  nor 
to  omit  facts  and  miscellaneous  information  which  would 
not  be  accessible  to  the  general  reader.  If  it  should  be 
thought  that  there  is  a  tendency  to  prolixity,  omission  might 
have  been  culpable.  Some  important  facts  and  the  prin- 
cipal ascertained  incidents  of  the  life  of  each  individual, 
have,  for  the  first  time,  been  brought  together.  Woe  to 
him  who  tries  to  say  all  that  can  be  said  on  any  individual, 
even  of  some  illustrious  line,  like  that  of  Stanley,  "so 
ancient "  to  adopt  a  remark  of  Gibbon  in  his  Autobiography, 
"that  it  has  no  beginning,  and  so  worthy  that  it  ought 
to  have  no  end."  The  annotations  are  restricted  to  the 
subject;  and  private  opinions  on  the  conduct  and  proceed- 
ings of  the  deceased  have  not,  it  is  hoped,  been  un- 
necessarily or  offensively  obtruded  on  the  reader.  Some 
of  the  notes  contain  original  information  which  may  furnish 
future  biographers  with  materials  from  which  an  accurate 
judgment  may  be  formed  of  the  characters,  principles, 
and  ordinary  habits  of  life,  of  a  few  of  our  more  distin- 
guished Lancashire  worthies,  and  it  is  trusted  that  this 
statement  will  be  received  as  an  exposition  of  the  motives 

of  the  contributors  of  these  notes. 

R. 

March,   1869. 


CONTENTS. 


Extract  from  the   "  Orders  to  be  observide  and  kept  by  tlie 

Officers  of  Amies"      'page  i 

Sir  John  Eatcltpf,  1568  3v 

Edward  earl  of  Derby,  1572      4- 

Henry  EARL  of  Derby,  1593    15 

William  Fleetwood,  1593    28 

Henry  Stanley,  1598 29 

Mrs.  Margaret  Eadcliff,  1599 35  y 

Katuerine  Bretabgh,  1601  37 

Sir  Edward  Stanley,  1604  40 

Edward  NoRRES,  1606     41 

Sir  Alexander  Barlowe,  1620    45 

Sir  Edmund  Trafford,  1620     47 

Sir  Thomas  Ireland,  1625    49 

Robert  earl  of  Sussex,  1629 53 

Oswald  Mosley,  Esq.,  1630 54  ^ 

Edward  Moore,  Esq.,  1633    56 

EicHARD  Bold,  Esq.,  1635      58 

ElCHARD    viscount    MoLYNEUX,    1 636      60 

Alice  countess  of  Derby,  1636-7  62 

GrEORGE    ClABKE,    1637        73 

Lady  Dorothy  Legh,  1639    80 

Sir  Gilbert  Ireland,  1675  82 

Dame  Margaret  Ireland,  1675 82 

Sir  Thomas  G-eerard,  1601  88    •• 


Obscure !  why  prithee  what  am  I  ?     I  kuew 

My  father,  graudsire,  and  gi-eat  grandsire,  too  ; 

If  further  I  derive  my  jjedigree 

I  can  but  guess  beyond  the  fourth  degree, 

The  rest  of  my  forgotten  ancestors 

Were  sons  of  earth. 

Dryden. 


LANCASHIRE 

FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


EXTRACT  from  the  "Orders  to  be  obseruide  and  kepte  by  the 
"  Officers  of  Armes  made  by  the  highe  and  mighty  Prince 
"  Thomas  Duke  of  NorfoUce  Erie  Marischall  of  Englande  An'o 
"1568  the  xviii'^  day  of  July  yn  the  Tenth  yere  of  the  Beigne 
"  of  Queene  Elizabeth." 

TEM  it  is  also  orderid  and  decreed  by  the  sayd  Erie  Marschall  The  Buriaies 
that  S'  Gilbert  Dethicke  Kiiighte  otherwise  cauled  Garter  incident  to 
Principall  Kinge  of  Armes  shall  haue  the  orderinge  marshalinge 
and  settinge  forthe  of  the  buriaies  of  all  suche  uoble  and  hono- 
rable personages  as  now  are  or  at  any  tyme  herafter  shal  be  of 
the  honourable  order  of  the  Garter  and  ther  wifes  in  suche  sorte 
as  his  Predicessors  in  the  Offyce  of  Garter  haue  hertofor  hadde 
and  enioyed  And  that  he  shall  further  haue  the  buriaies  of  all 
the  nobles  being  peeres  of  this  Realme  and  of  the  highe  courte  of 
Parliamente  and  ther  wifes  withe  the  two  Archebishopes  of  Can- 
terbury and  Yorke  and  the  bishope  of  Winchester  only  as  also  the 
orderinge  and  settinge  forthe  of  the  buriaies  of  the  heirs  appa- 
rente  of  all  Dukes,  Marquesses  Erles  and  ther  Wifes.  And  it  is 
forther  orderide  that  he  the  sayd  Garter  shall  take  to  serue  with 
him  at  the  funerales  of  the  aforsayde  noble  and  honorable  person- 
ages first  Clarentieulx  and  then  Norry  Kinges  of  Armes  and  so 
successivly  one  after  an  other  the  herauldes  and  pursuivauntes  of 

B 


cause  of  Sick 
ness. 


2  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTICATES. 

Armes  in  order  accordinge  to  tlier  auncienty  and  degree  in  Offyce, 
and  so  to  beginn  agayne. 
The  Buriaies  It  is  also  ordercdc  and  decreede  by  the  sayde  Erie  Merschall 

appropriat  and 

inccden:to         that  Clarcntieulx  and  Norry  shall  within  ther  seuerall  provinces 

Clarenticulx  and  _  _ 

Norrj-  liaue  th'  only  orderinge  mersehalinge  and  settinge  forthe  of  the 

funeralcs  of  all  other  gentill  and  noble  personages  viz.  that  is 
to  say  all  estates  from  a  Baron  downwards  excepte  knightes  of 
Th'  order  and  ther  wifes  without  the  lette  or  euterruption  of  any 
other  Officers  of  Arms  and  the  sayd  Clarientieulx  and  Norry  shall 
take  to  serve  withe  them  at  the  sayde  funerales  as  occasion  shall 
serve  and  the  place  requyre,  other  the  herauldes  and  pursuivauntes 
of  armes  successively  one  after  another  in  order  accordinge  to  ther 
auncienty  and  degree  in  office.  It  is  also  orderid  that  Norry 
A  Deputie  Kiugc  of  Armcs  shall  have  a  tome  at  the  funerales  in  the  province 
Funerales  in  of  Clareutieulx  amougc  the  sayd  heraulds  and  pursuivantes  as 
the  eldest  heraulde.  It  is  morouer  orderid  and  decreed  that  if  it 
shall  fortune  any  of  the  Kinges  of  Armes  to  be  in  the  Princes 
Service  in  Visitacion  or  sicknes  or  otherwise  absente  that  then  one 
of  the  sayd  Kinges  of  Armes  to  be  the  others  Deputy  as  though 
he  himself  were  ther  presente  And  further  it  is  orderide  and 
decreed  that  if  it  fortune  any  of  the  sayd  herauldes  or  pursuivantes 
to  be  visited  withe  sickness  that  then  it  shal  be  lawfull  for  every 
of  them  in  tyme  of  sicknes  to  assigne  his  Deputy  to  serve  for  him 
at  any  suche  fewnerales  whiche  Deputy  shal  be  accomptable  to 
him  of  all  droictes  and  commodityes  received  or  hade  for  any  such 
funerales.  Provided  also  that  the  sayde  Deputye  so  servinge  shal 
be  alowde  his  reasonable  charges  of  him  then  beinge  sicke  any 
thinge  in  thes  articles  to  the  contrary  notwithstandinge  Provided 
alwayes  that  at  what  tyme  as  any  of  the  sayd  Heraulds  or  Pursui- 
vauntes shall  serve  at  any  of  the  feonerales  aforsayd  the  Kinge  of 
armes  not  beinge  present  therat  the  sayd  Herauldes  or  pursui- 
vantes so  servinge  shall  within  one  monithe  next  after  the  feonerall 
pay  to  the  Kynge  of  Armes  to  whom  it  shall  appertayne  suche 
ordinary  fees  as  at  this  present  are  vside  and  hertofor  haue  Bene 
accustomede. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  3 

Item  it  is  also  orderede  and  decreed  by  the  sayd  Erie  Marshall 
that  every  Kirige  of  Armes  heraulde  or  pursuivante  that  shall 
serve  at  any  fuuerall  as  is  aforsayd  shall  briuge  into  the  libiari  or 
office  of  Armes  atrewe  and  certayne  Certificate  vnder  the  hands  of  a  Certificate  to 
the  executors  and  morners  that  shall  be  present  at  the  sayd  fune-  Funeraies. 
rail  conteyninge  the  day  of  the  deathe  the  place  of  buriall  of  the 
persone  so  deceased.  And  also  to  whom  he  or  she  married  what 
issewe  they  hade  what  years  they  were  of  at  the  tyme  of  the  sayd 
buriall  and  to  whom  they  were  maried  to  tW  entent  that  the  sayd 
Certificate  may  be  regestiede  and  so  remayne  as  a  perpetuall 
recorde  in  the  sayd  Office  for  ever. 


l/<3  h-S'  SIR  JOHN  RATCLYFF,  1568. 

Mineral  Certificates,  I.  5,  Jo.  164,  Coll.  Arm. 

SR  John  Ratclyff  knight  3  son  to  Rob?  Erl  of  Sussex  deseased 
at  his  howsse  at  the  Tower  hyll  in  London  the  ix*  of  Novem- 
ber in  A°  1568  and  in  the  x*'^  yere  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Souaigne 
Lady  queue  Elizabeth  and  was  buryed  at  the  pishe  cherche  of 
Saint  Olyves  in  hart  strete  in  the  said  Cytie  the  xix*  of  the  said 
mounth  and  in  the  x*^  yere  of  the  Raigne  of  our  Souaigne  Lady 
queue  Elizabeth. 

The  said  S'  John  Ratclyff  knight  maryed  Anne  doughter  of  Thoiii 
Benolt  ats  Olarencyeulx  king  of  Armes  and  had  no  issue.  The 
sole  Executor  to  the  said  S^'  John  Ratclyff  knight  is  the  said  Lady 
Anne  his  wyeff.  The  morners  at  the  said  fewnerall  were  thesse 
S'  Henry  Ratclyff  knight  M>^  Egremont  Ratclyff  his  brother,  S"^ 
Henry  Compton  knight^  S"^  Henry  Darcey  knight  and  S"^  Thorn 
Myldmay  knight.  The  heraulds  that  served  at  the  said  ffewnerall 
were  thesse  Robert  Cooke  Esquyre  ats  Clarencyeulx  kyng  of  Armes 


4  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

Will™  fflower  ats  Nory  kyng  of  Armes.  Hugh  Cotgrave  ats  Ryclie- 
mond  heraud  of  Armes.  In  wytness  that  this  Certyfycat  is  trew 
I  the  said  Lady  Anne  have  herevnto  set  my  hand  the  day  and  yere 
above  wrytten. 

1/6  1-75  Anne  Hatclyff. 

[Sir  John  Eadclifle  was  the  third  son  of  Eobert  baron  I'itzwalter,  by 
his  third  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  sir  John  Arundell  of  Llanhem,  in  the 
county  of  Cornwall,  knight.  (She  afterwards  married  Henry  Fitzalan, 
the  last  earl  of  Arundel  of  that  name.)  The  father  of  sir  John  (whose 
funeral  certificate  is  here  given)  succeeded  his  cousin,  John  EadclifFe, 
esq.,  in  15 18,  in  the  ancient  inheritance  of  Eadcliffe  tower,  in  Lanca- 
shire, by  virtue  of  entail.  He  was  created  earl  of  Sussex  on  the  1 8th 
December  1529,  and  was  viscount  and  baron  Fitzwalter,  baron  Lacy  of 
Egremont,  Burnell  and  Bottetourt,  lord  high  chamberlain  of  England 
for  life,  K.Gr.,  &c.  He  died  on  the  22nd  October  1 542,  and  his  third  wife 
on  the  20th  October  1557,  leaving  her  only  son,  John  Eadcliife,  aged 
18  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  mother's  death.  Sir  John  was  after- 
wards of  CHve  in  the  county  of  Somerset,  and  died  without  issue  a.d. 
1568,  his  Avidow,  dame  Anne  (younger  daughter  and  coheir  of  Thomas 
Benholt,  esq.,  a  distinguished  ambassador),  surviving  him,  and  marry- 
ing, secondly,  Eichard  Buckland,  esq.,  by  whom  she  had  several  chil- 
dren. She  died  on  the  loth  December  1585,  and  was  buried  at  St. 
Olave's,  Hart-street,  London.  In  the  elaborate  pedigree  of  the  family 
deduced  by  "William  Eadcliffe,  esq.,  rouge  croix,  Mr.  Egremont  Eadcliffe 
is  described  not  as  "the  brother"  but  as  the  nephew  of  sir  John.\ 
(Noble's  Hisi.  Coll.  Arms,  London,  p.  iii  ;  Hist,  of  Whalley,  p.  414; 
Maddiffe  Fed.  Lane.  MSS.)     B.^ 


EDWARD  EARL  OF  DERBY,  1572. 
Funeral  Gertif.     Knowsley  JSvid. 

THE  Right  Hon^i^  Edward  Erie  of  Derby e,  Viscompt  Kynton, 
Lord  Stanley,  Lord  Strange  of  Kuockyn,  Lord  Mohun,  Lord 
Bassett,  Lord  Burnell,  Lord  Lacy,  Lord  and  Kyng  of  Man  and  the 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


5 


lies,  one  of  y®  Lords  of  Her  Maiesties  most  hon^^«  pryvie  counsell 
and  knyght  companyon  of  y^  Garter,  dyed  att  at  his  howse  in 
Lancastreshyre,  callyd  Lathom  house^  on  the  xxiiij*^^  daye  of  Oc- 
tober, and  was  buryed  at  Ormeskirke  on  the  iv*^^  daye  of  Desem- 
ber  1572,  with  greate  pompe  and  state. 

He  marryed  firste  Dorothie,  dowter  to  Thomas  Howard  Duke  of 
Northfolk,  and  by  her  had  yssue  his  sone  and  successour,  the 
Eyght  Hon'^^*^  Henrie  nowe  Erie  of  Derbye,  Syr  Thomas  Stanley 
his  second  sone,  and  Syr  Edward  Stanley  his  third  sone,  and  also 
four  dowters,  i  Anne,  2  Elisabeth,  3  Marie,  and  4  Jane.  He  mar- 
ryed to  his  second  wyfe  Margret,  dowter  of  Ellis  Barlowe  of  Bar- 
lowe,  in  the  sayd  Countie,  Esquier,  by  whom  he  had  issew  two 
dowters  viz.  i  ISIargarett  and  2  Kathrein.  He  marryed  to  his  third 
wyfe  Marie,  dowter  to  S'  George  Cotton  of  Combermere,  in  y« 
County  of  Chester,  knyght,  who  survives  him,  but  hath  no  issewe. 

[On  the  death  of  his  father  on  the  23rd  May  15  21,  Edward  lord 
Strange  was  a  minor,  being  only  in  his  eleventh  year.  He  became  a 
ward  of  cardinal  Wolsey,  who  secured  by  grant  from  Henry  VIII. 
some  of  the  minor's  estates.  In  1527  the  youthful  earl  accompanied 
the  cardinal  on  his  embassy  to  Calais.  (Wolsey  Corresp.,  State  Pap. 
vol.  i.  No.  cviii. ;  Chron.  of  Calais  p.  38).  In  153 1  he  was  amongst  the 
peers  who  addressed  the  pope  in  favour  of  the  king's  marriage  and 
intimated  that  should  his  holiness  refuse,  a  remedy  would  be  sought 
elsewhere.  In  1532,  October  ii,  he  accompanied  Henry  VIII.  and  a 
large  and  magnificent  retinue  of  nobles,  bishops,  and  gentry,  with  their 
attendants,  to  Boulogne,  where  they  met  the  French  king,  Erancis  I., 
the  king  of  Navarre,  the  cardinal  of  Loraine,  and  the  nobility  of  Prance ; 
and  amongst  the  gay  company  was  the  lady  Anne  Boleyn,  marchioness 
of  Pembroke,  married  to  Henry  VIII.  in  the  following  January.  {Chron. 
of  Calais,  p.  43.)  In  1533  he  conveyed  queen  Anne  Boleyn  in  his 
own  barge  from  Greenwich  in  order  to  her  coronation,  at  which  solem- 
nity he  was  the  cup-bearer.  At  this  time  he  was  created  a  Icoight  of 
the  bath.  September  loth  1533,  at  the  christening  of  the  lady  Eliza- 
beth, afterwards  queen,  the  earl  of  Wiltshire  and  the  earl  of  Perby  sup- 


6  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

ported  the  royal  infant's  train  and  attended  the  procession  to  the  church, 
where  arolibisliop  Cranmer  the  godfather,  the  duchess  dowager  of 
!Xorfollv  and  tlic  dowager  marchioness  of  Dorset,  the  godmothers,  and 
a  long  retinue  of  the  nobility  were  present.  (Nichols's  Prog.,  vol.  i.  p. 
I.)  In  1536  he  took  an  active  part  in  raising  forces  in  Lancashire 
and  Cheshire  for  the  suppression  of  the  pilgrimage  of  grace.  (Nichols's 
Narrative  of  the  Reformation,  Camd.  Soc,  p.  284.)  The  king's  letters 
addressed  to  him,  and  other  unpublished  documents,  connected  with  this 
important  northern  insurrection  are  amongst  the  Lane.  MS8.,  and  will 
probably  be  printed  by  the  Chetham  Society.  In  1539  the  earl  was 
one  of  the  lords  of  the  king's  own  train  at  the  reception  of  the  lady 
Aune  of  Cleves,  in  England,  prior  to  her  marriage  with  Henry  VIII. 
(Chron.  of  Calais,  p.  175.)  In  1542  he  marched  into  Scotland  with 
Thomas  Howard  third  duke  of  Norfolk,  his  brother-in-law,  with  20,000 
men,  and  committed  great  devastation.  In  1544  he  was  a  zealous  sup- 
porter of  the  Eeformation,  being  one  of  the  lords  appointed  to  further 
it,  and  also  about  the  same  time  a  benefactor  to  the  church  of  Eccles- 
ton,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster.  {Lane.  Chantries,  \o\.\i.^.  i79-)  He 
was  a  commissioner  for  the  dissolution  of  the  monasteries,  and  amongst 
other  spoil  secured  for  himself,  from  the  king,  the  manor  and  advowson 
of  Ormskirk,  which  had  belonged  to  the  abbey  of  Burscough  ;  but  after 
all,  the  property  merely  returned  to  the  family  of  the  original  donor. 
(Gastrell's  Not.  Cestr.,  vol.  ii.  pt.  i.  pp.  196,  197.)  He  was  also  a 
benefactor  to  the  church  of  Samlesbury  in  Blackburn  parish  (ibid. 
p.  293),  but  not  to  the  Collegiate  church  of  Manchester.  (Dr.  Hibbert 
"Ware's  Hist.,  vol.  i.  p.  6g.) 

In  1546,  when  the  high,  admiral  of  France,  accompanied  by  a  great 
suite,  came  on  an  embassy  to  the  king,  the  earl  of  Derby  was  specially 
commanded  by  his  majesty  to  receive  the  distinguished  guests  at  Black- 
wall  and  conduct  them  to  the  court  at  Grreenwich. 

In  January  1547  he  was  one  of  the  mourners  appointed  to  attend 
the  funeral  of  Henry  VIII.  (Strype's  Mem.  vol.  v.  p.  269.)  On  the 
17th  February  1546-7  he  was  elected  knight  of  the  garter,  and  installed 
on  the  22nd  May  following.  (Beltz's  Mem.  of  the  Order  of  the  Garter, 
p.  clxxvi.) 

In  1 550  he  was  one  of  the  peers  who  signed  the  articles  of  peace  made 
between  Edward  VI.  and  the  Scots  and  French.  (Collins's  [Brydges'] 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  n 

Peer.,  vol.  iii.  p.  71.)  November  17,  1550,  his  mother  was  buried  at 
Colham.  She  survived  his  father  nearly  thirty  years,  having  married 
for  her  second  husband  John  Eadcliffe,  lord  Fitzwalter.  She  was  Ann, 
daughter  of  Edward  lord  Hastings  and  Hungerford,  and  sister  of  George 
first  earl  of  Huntingdon,  of  that  name.  Her  first  husband  died  at  his 
house  at  Colham,  in  the  parish  of  Hillingden,  in  the  county  of  Middle- 
sex, and  was  buried  in  the  neighbouring  monastery  of  Syon.  She 
appears  to  have  retained  the  popular  and  higher  title  of  countess  of 
Derby.   (Machyn's  Diary,  p.  2.) 

May  31,  155 1,  the  earl  of  Derby  arrived  at  Chelsea  out  of  the  north 
with  a  goodly  company  of  men  and  horses.  {Ibid.  p.  6.)  On  the  6th 
July  his  lordship  attended  the  king  at  Blackheath,  accompanied  by  the 
earl  of  Warwick,  the  lord  admiral  Clinton,  sir  William  Harbord,  and 
many  lords,  knights,  and  gentlemen,  and  his  majesty  "  ran  at  the  ring," 
on  Blackheath,  and  afterwards  supped  with  the  lords  on  board  the 
admiral's  ship  at  Deptford.   (Ibid.  pp.  6,  7.) 

On  the  8th  August  1553  the  "good  earl  of  Derby"  came  to  London 
to  the  funeral  of  king  Edward  YI.  whom  he  had  served,  attended  by 
four  score  men  in  coats  of  velvet,  and  after  him  two  hundred  and 
eighteen  yeomen  in  his  livery,  and  so  to  his  house  at  Westminster. 
(Ibid.  40.) 

On  the  5th  September  1553,  the  earl  was  appointed  by  queen  Mary, 
whose  cause  he  wai'mly  espoused  against  lady  Jane  Grey,  a  judge  dele- 
gate for  sentence  of  bishop  Bonner's  restitution  to  his  see.  (Strype's 
Mem.,  vol.  iv.  p.  57.)  Sunday  October  i,  1553,  the  earl  was  appointed 
high  constable  of  England,  in  Westminster  hall,  at  the  coronation  of 
queen  Mary.  (Ibid.) 

On  the  19th  July  1554,  he  was  one  of  the  noblemen  who,  consti- 
tuting a  large  and  brilliant  assemblage,  attended  on  Philip  II.,  prince 
of  Spain,  on  his  arrival  in  England,  in  order  to  his  marriage  with  the 
queen.  A  full  description  of  the  pageant  is  given  in  the  Chronicle  of 
Queen  Jane  and  Queen  Mary,  by  J.  G.  Nichols,  esq.,  App.  p.  136, 
(Camd.  Soc.)  The  earl  was  one  of  the  three  noblemen  who  gave  her 
highness  in  marriage  in  the  name  of  the  whole  realm.  (Ibid.  p.  169.) 

In  March  1555  George  Marsh,  the  mai-tyr,  was  brought  before  the 
earl  of  Derby  and  his  ecclesiastical  council  at  Lathom,  where  he  found 
sir  William  Norris  of  Speke,  sir  Piers  Legh  of  Lyme,  master  Sherburn 


8  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

the  rector  of  Grappenhale,  master  More,  and  otliers  ;  and  the  earl 
closely  examined  him  on  controverted  points  of  theology.  He  was  sent 
to  "a  cold  and  windy  stone  room,"  and  left  in  solitary  coniinement  at 
Lathom,  until  Palm  Sunday,  when  the  earl,  sir  John  Byron,  and  the 
vicar  of  Prescot  again  sent  for  and  sharply  catechised  him.  The  earl 
afterwards  said  to  Marsh  that  he,  lord  Windsor,  and  lord  Dacre,  who 
had  been  reputed  advocates  of  the  Eeformation,  had  never  consented 
to  the  acts  of  religion  in  the  time  of  Edward  YI.  There  visited  him  in 
his  cell  at  Lathom  Mr.  "Westby,  Mr.  Asliaw  of  the  Hill,  Mr.  Assheton 
of  Chadderton,  and  other  influential  and  earnest  minded  men  of  the 
reformed  faith.  (Foxe's  Martyrs,  vol.  vii.  pt.  i.  p.  42  et  seq.) 

In  1555  John  Bradford  the  learned  and  devout  Manchester  martyr, 
was  visited  in  prison  by  Dr.  Weston  the  Eoman  catholic  dean  of  West- 
minster, at  the  request  of  the  earl  of  Derby.  He  was  accompanied  by 
one  of  the  earl's  men  and  by  Dr.  Collyer,  once  warden  of  Manchester ; 
afterwards  Dr.  Pendleton  the  Grammar  schoolmaster,  Stephen  Beck  a 
wealthy  merchant,  and  the  said  Dr.  Collyer,  all  Manchester  men,  well 
acquainted  with  the  popular  feeling  on  the  subject,  and  opposed  to  his 
creed,  visited  Bradford.  (Ibid.^-p.  iS 2-184,  Ch.  Sistor.)  Pendleton  and 
Beck  were  relatives  of  Bradford,  and  of  Roger  Beswick  his  brother-in- 
law.  (See  Hist,  of  Lane.  Chantries,  vol.  ii.  p.  248,  note  ;  Wood's  Athen. 
[Bliss]  vol.  i.  p.  325.)  For  an  account  of  the  earl's  treatment  of  two 
heads  of  the  Roman  catholic  j)arty  in  Lancashire  see  Stanley  Papers, 
pt.  iii.  p.  cxxvii.,  note  52. 

In  1557  the  earl  of  Derby  received  letters  from  the  earl  of  Shrews- 
bury authorising  him  to  muster  and  prepare  the  inhabitants  of  the 
counties  of  Lancaster  and  Chester  to  be  ready  to  repair  to  the  earl 
with  his  servants  and  tenants  and  such  force  as  he  should  be  able  to 
make  to  serve  their  majesties,  in  such  order  and  place  as  the  earl  of 
Shrewsbury  for  the  time  should  appoint.  (Strype's  Hem.  vol.  v.  p.  227.) 
On  the  20th  September  1557  he  wrote  again  to  the  earl  of  Derby  lord 
lieutenant  of  the  counties  of  Lancaster  and  Chester,  to  let  him  know 
that  according  to  such  information  as  he  had  received  the  Scots  intended 
to  have  an  army  consisting  of  the  whole  force  of  Scotland  in  readiness 
within  two  days  of  Michaelmas  day,  and  therewith  to  invade  England 
if  not  resisted.  Therefore  he  required  lord  Derby  with  all  speed  to  come 
forward  with  the  whole  force  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire,  and  to  be  with 


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tlie  said  force  at  Newcastle,  on  the  5tli  October.  The  earl  of  Derby  on 
the  22nd  September,  sent  word  to  the  lord  lieutenant,  that  he  intended 
to  set  forward  upon  Thursday  the  last  of  September,  and  to  proceed  with 
the  best  speed  he  could,  lying  the  first  night  at  Blackburn,  the  second 
at  Grisburne,  and  the  third  at  Skipton,  or  near  those  places,  trusting  his 
lordship  would  have  consideration  to  give  order  for  payment  of  coat  and 
conduct  money  as  he  had  been  accustomed  in  time  past,  remembering  the 
simple  and  poor  estate  of  the  subject  at  that  time  who  otherwise  were 
likely  to  be  in  great  want.  {Ibid.  p.  229.)  The  earl  of  Derby  conducted 
the  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  men  in  such  great  numbers  that  the  queen, 
dreading  the  excessive  charges,  forbade  the  earl  to  go  forwards,  and 
commanded  him  to  keep  his  forces  at  home,  determining  for  the  present 
to  resist  the  Scots'  doings  with  a  less  force  than  the  whole  army,  and 
this,  notwithstanding  the  lord  president's  former  letter  to  him  ad- 
dressed, but  yet  to  remain  in  perfect  readiness  to  come  forward  here- 
after, if  occasion  required,  upon  any  sudden  warning.  This  good 
husbandry  in  this  imminent  danger,  and  countermanding  his  orders, 
did  not  much  please  the  said  lord  president  nor  the  earl  of  Derby. 
(Ibid.)  Strype  gives  the  names  of  the  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  cap- 
tains and  the  number  of  their  men,  which  was  about  3,200. 

November  17th,  1558  queen  Mary  died,  and  her  successor,  Elizabeth, 
prudently  retained  thirteen  of  the  late  queen's  privy  councillors, 
amongst  whom  was  the  earl  of  Derby  ;  and  on  the  21st  the  marquis  of 
"Winchester  and  the  earls  of  Shrewsbury  and  Derby  were  specially 
summoned,  by  mandate  from  the  queen  sitting  in  council  at  Hatfield 
house,  to  attend  her  majesty  on  her  first  entrance  into  London  with  all 
their  train  and  servants,  and  with  such  of  the  nobility  whose  names 
were  inclosed,  being  at  that  time  in  London.    (Nichols's  Proff.  Q.  Eliz. 

vol.  i.  p.  35-) 

The  earl  lost  his  second  wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Ellis  Barlow  of 
Barlow,  near  Manchester,  esq.,  M.P.,  on  the  19th  January,  and  she  was 
buried  on  the  24th  February  1558-9,  at  Ormskirk,  with  great  solemnity, 
attended  by  knights,  squires,  and  gentlemen,  ladies  and  gentlewomen, 
yeomen  in  black  coats  and  coat  armour,  in  gold  and  silver,  with 
standards,  banners,  and  flags,  "  right  pleasant  to  beholde,"  the  lady 
Margaret  (her  elder  daughter),  being  the  chief  mourner.  Dr.  Thomas 
Stanley,  bishop  of  Man  being  present,  sang  a  solemn  mass  on  that  day, 

c 


lO  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

having  on  Lis  ornaments  and  mitre.  On  the  Tuesday  following,  40Z.  was 
dealt  out  "  for  her  sowle,"  to  the  poor  of  eight  parishes.  Richard  Sheale, 
a  local  minstrel,  sang  her  praises  in  an  "  Epitaph,"  of  which  a  short 
specimen  may  be  given : 

O  Lathom,  Lathom,  tliowe  must  lament,  for  thowe  hast  lost  a  floware. 
For  Margaret,  the  Countes  of  Darbe  in  the  yerth  hast  bylte  her  boware. 

«  #  #  * 

Farewell  my  louinge  brothar  Barlowe,  my  leve  I  tak  of  thee. 
Wyth  these  mortale  yeys  that  I  now  bear,  noe  more  I  shall  you  see. 
Fetch  me  the  goode  Stanley,  sayd  she 
Good  Sir  Thomas  Stanley,  she  sayd,  y'  is  so  lyke  my  lorde. 
A  messenger  then  for  was  made  to  foche  y'  gentyll  knyght, 
But  or  he  to  Latham  came  y'  was  abowt  midnyght, 
When  that  he  saw  y'  she  was  dede  he  wept  and  made  gret  sorrow, 
For  he  lovyde  her  well  and  she  loryde  him,  all  this  is  ryght  well  knowen. 
«  »  *  * 

To  OrmykyrJce  was  her  bodye  brought  and  there  was  -wrapt  in  clay. 
*  *  *  * 

It  appears  that  the  countess,  aware  of  her  approaching  death,  gave 
wise  maternal  counsel  to  her  daughter,  the  lady  Margaret,  and  en- 
joyned  her  to  be  good  towards  her  younger  sister  Katherine,  these 
being  her  two  daughters  by  the  earl,  exhorted  her  children  to  serve 
God  day  and  night,  and  always  to  be  charitable  to  the  poor.  She  also 
took  an  affectionate  farewell  of  her  two  step-daughters,  the  lady  Mary 
and  lady  Jane.  These  four  children  of  the  earl  appear  to  have  been 
present  at  the  closing  scene.  The  earl  is  not  named.  (^Palatine  Gar- 
land, p.  49.) 

The  earl  soon  married  again.  His  third  vrife  was  Mary,  daughter  of 
sir  George  Cotton  of  Combermere,  knight,  vice-chamberlain  of  the 
household  of  prince  Edward,  and  K.G.,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue.  On 
the  ist  January  1561-2  queen  Elizabeth  presented  a  new  year's  gift 
to  the  earl  of  Derby,  being  "  one  guilt  bowl  with  a  cover,  per  oz. 
31  oz.  i  dim.  and  to  the  countess  of  Derby  one  guilt  cup  with  a  cover, 
per  oz.  23I,  dim.  \  oz.,"  whilst  the  earl  gave  at  the  same  time  to  her 
majesty  in  "  a  purse  of  crimson  satten,  embraudered  with  gold  in  dimy. 
20Z.,"  and  the  countess  offered,  in  "a  purse  of  crimson  satten,  em- 
brodered  with  gold  in  dimy.  10/."  (Nichols's  JProg.  ofEliz.  vol.  i.) 

April  22nd,  1563,  being  St.  George's  day,  the  knights  of  the  garter 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  1 1 

came  from  the  queen's  chamber,  through  the  hall,  to  her  chapel,  which 
waa  strewn  with  green  rushes,  and  amongst  others  came  the  earl  of 
Derby,  and  every  knight  went  to  his  own  stall.  Afterwards  there  was 
a  great  procession  preceded  by  all  the  heralds  and  sergeants  of  arms, 
the  duke  of  Norfolk,  master  garter,  and  master  Norres  the  dean  of  the 
chapel,  being  arrayed  in  crimson  satin  velvet ;  then  came  the  bishop  of 
Winchester  and  sir  William  Petre  in  robes  of  crimson  velvet  with  red 
crosses  on  their  robes.  The  earl  of  Northumberland  bare  the  sword, 
and  then  came  the  queen  in  her  robe,  and  master  Knollys  bare  the 
queen's  ti*ain.  (Machyn's  Diary,  p.  305.) 

His  Household  Expenses  in  Lancashire  for  the  year  1561  and  his 
Household  Begulations  for  the  year  1568  have  been  printed  by  the 
Chetham  Society.  There  is  in  the  volume  a  finely  etched  portrait  of 
the  earl,  from  the  original  picture  at  Worden  hall.  He  is  said  by 
Hollinshed  to  have  died  November  24th,  1573,  an.  reg.  14  Eliz.,  (vol. 
ii.  p.  1257,)  which  is  an  error  corrected  by  this  funeral  certificate.  He 
offered  to  raise  10,000  at  his  own  charge  for  the  suppression  of  the 
rebellion  of  the  two  northern  earls.  He  never  forced  any  service  at 
his  tenants'  hands  but  always  due  payment  of  their  rent.  His  libe- 
rality to  strangers  and  to  such  as  showed  themselves  grateful  to  him  was 
remarkable.  No  gentleman  ever  waited  in  his  service  without  allow- 
ance, as  well  wages  as  otherwise,  for  horse  and  man.  His  annual 
household  expenses  amounted  to  4,000?.,  and  Camden  says,  (Hist,  of 
Queen  Eliz.,  p.  188,)  "with  him  the  glory  of  hospitality  hath  in  a 
manner  fallen  asleep."  He  was  famous  for  his  cunning  in  setting 
bones,  disjointed  or  broken,  and  also  for  his  skill  in  surgery,  and  a 
desire  to  help  the  poor.  Conscious  of  his  approaching  dissolution  he 
took  a  final  leave  of  all  his  servants  before  his  death  by  shaking  of  hands 
and  reminding  them  of  the  last  day.  (Hollinshed,  vol.  ii.  p.  1258.) 

The  magnificent  ceremonial  of  this  nobleman's  funeral  was  probably 
greater  than  that  of  any  contemporary  peer,  and  more  than  rivalled  the 
royal  exequies.  The  details  have  often  been  printed  in  the  Peerages 
from  a  manuscript  of  John  Anstis,  esq.,  garter.  He  is  erroneously 
said,  first  by  Collins  and  by  all  subsequent  writers,  to  have  died  in  the 
year  1574.  Hollinshed  and  Stow  also  erroneously  state  that  he  fed  2700 
persons  with  meat  and  drink  every  "Good  Friday"  during  thirty-five 
years.    The  great  festival  of  Christmas  was  clearly  intended,  and  not  the 


I  2  LANCASUIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

fast-day  of  the  cnicifixion  of  our  Saviour.  The  following  abstract  of  his 
will,  which  has  not  before  been  printed,  contains  several  curious  par- 
ticulars relating  to  his  immediate  family  connections  and  domestic 
arrangements. 

It  is  dated  the  28th  of  August  1572  (not  the  24th  as  in  sir  Egerton 
Brydges'  edition  of  Collins's  Peerage),  and  was  proved  in  Doctors' 
Commons  by  all  the  executors  therein  named  on  the  21st  November. 
He  is  styled  in  the  probate  "  of  Lathom  in  the  County  of  Lancaster 
and  Diocese  of  Chester,  deceased,"  and  from  the  copy  of  the  funeral 
certificate  it  appears  that  he  died  there.  He  states  himself  to  be  at 
the  time  of  making  his  will  "of  good  and  pfecte  mynde  ^  reme- 
brance,"  but  knowing  "that  it  is  mete  ^  convenyant  for  everye  crea- 
ture so  to  prepaire  that  they  be  alwayes  redye  as  though  death  showlde 
sodenlye  come,"  he  makes  his  will.  "  First  I  surender  (i  beqweath  my 
sowle  vnto  Almyghtye  God  the  Savio^  q  Eedymer  of  mankinde,  and  my 
bodye  to  be  buryed  in  the  earth  w^'^in  the  P'ish  Churtche  of  Ormes- 
churtche,  in  the  plase  where  hit  maye  be  thought  convenyent  at  the 
discresyon  of  my  Executors."  And  for  the  payment  of  his  debts  and 
the  preferment  of  his  children,  kinsfolks  and  servants  not  then  pre- 
ferred or  holpen,  and  for  the  discharge  of  his  funerals,  "  and  the  errect- 
ing  (J  bvlding  of  one  Chappell  ^  one  Monvmente  or  Towmbe  at 
Ormeschurtche  for  the  bvryall  of  my  corpes  according  to  my  honowre 
and  vocation,"  he  gives  and  bequeaths  to  his  executors  in  trust,  "  his 
Manors  of  "Wetton,  Thraylles,  Awlston,  Anlesargh,  Eaineforth,  Clawgh- 
ton,  Thorneley,  Osmo^vnderley,  Torrisholme,  Oxcliife,  Cople,  Chorley, 
Bolton  en  le  Mores,  Ylneswalton  ^  Kellermore,  in  the  County  of  Lan- 
caster ;  his  Manors  of  Bythome  and  Arnesheade,  in  the  County  of 
"Westmereland ;  his  Manor  of  Borton  in  Lonsdale,  in  the  County  of 
York;  his  Manor  of  Malowrsarseneck,  in  the  County  of  Flint;  his 
Manors  of  Midle  alias  Mowld,  Nestrandge  and  Nesklyffe,  in  the  County 
of  Salop,"  with  sundry  messages,  lands,  rents,  &c.,  for  the  performance 
of  his  will.  "  And  my  AVille  is  that  my  saide  Executowrs  shall  w*4n 
convenyent  tyme  after  my  dissease  cawse  one  covenyent  Chappell  to 
be  bvlded  (;  made  at  the  P'rish  Churtche  of  Ormeschurtche,  and  a 
Towmbe  there  for  my  corpes  or  body  to  be  layde  in  mete  for  my 
honowre  (>  calling."  He  gives  out  of  the  said  manors  an  annuity  of  ten 
poimds  to  Mawd  Scaresbryke  for  her  life ;  to  his  servant  Hugh  Holme 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  I  3 

a  similar  annuity  of  4?. ;  to  Greorge  Moscroppe  an  annuity  of  4I. ;  to 
his  four  servants  Dormyssyvs  Vister  an  aniiuity  of  3Z.  6s.  Sd. ;  to  Ro- 
bert Talbot  an  annuity  of  4I. ;  to  Eawffe  Hollande  four  marks  ;  to 
Nicholas  ffyney  3?.  6s.  Sd.  Also  to  his  lordship's  "  Cossin  Katherine 
Storton  for  herr  mayntenanse,  advansement  (y  preferment  in  maryadge, 
the  some  of  fowre  hvndreth  markes,  to  be  levied  (>  taken  of  the  issves  q 
p'fitts  of  my  sayde  Manowrs,  lands,  tenym*"  (j  heredittamentes."  He 
bequeaths  to  his  servant  Henry  Morecrofte  lol.  After  the  payments 
of  debts  and  legacies  the  remainder  of  his  manors,  &c.,  is  devised  to  his 
son  Henry  lord  Strandge,  and  the  heirs  male  of  his  body,  lawfully 
begotten,  and  in  default  of  such  issue,  to  the  right  heirs  of  the  said 
earl  of  Derby  for  ever.  And  he  appoints  his  "  Eyght  welbeloved 
S'vantes  S' Fetter  Leigh,  S'Eyc.  Shyrborne,  Knyghtes,  "W"  Massey. 
Henry  Stanley,  Alexander  Barlowe,  Esquires,  Alexander  Eigbye  and 
"W™  Stopforth,  Gentlemen,  Executors ;"  and  constituted  "  the  Eight 
Honorable  his  verye  good  Lordes  the  Earle  of  Sussex  q  the  Earle  of 
Leyster"  Supervisors.  He  bequeaths  to  Anne  Hawarden  20I.  to  bo 
paid  unto  her  in  money,  and  to  his  servant  Marmaduke  Nevv^ton 
61.  135.  4d.  yearly,  "during  the  continuance  of  W°  ifarington  his 
Lease  of  my  moyety  or  halfe  p'te  of  Vlneswalton."  **  Also  to  my  son 
Thomas  my  best  Horse,  to  my  son  Edward  my  best  Grelding,  to  my 
daughter  Morley  lol.  in  plate,  to  my  daughter  Stafforth  the  money 
that  my  son  Stafforth  her  husband  oweth  me  by  his  Bill,  to  my  daughter 
Stafforth  lol.  in  plate,  to  my  daughter  Margaret  40I.  in  money  or  plate, 
to  my  son  the  Lord  Storton  100  marks,  to  my  son^  fferdinando  20I.,  to 
my  son^  W"  Stanley  lol.,  to  my  son^  Erancis  Stanley  loZ.,  to  my  son 
Edward  Parker  10?.  in  plate,  to  my  cousin  Henry  Stanley  40?.  which  he 
owes  me  by  Bill,  to  each  of  my  Executors  61.  13*.  4d.,  and  to  each  of 
my  Supervisors  a  piece  of  plate  of  20I.  Also  it  is  my  Will  that  my 
Executors  shall  disburse  among  poor  People  as  by  their  discretions 
shall  be  thought  meet.  Also  to  my  servants  of  Household  attending  in 
my  house  that  be  not  preferred  by  me  with  lease,  annuity  or  otherwise,  to 
have  every  of  them  a  year's  wages.  I  will  and  devise  that  my  daughter 
Margaret  shall  have  and  enjoy  my  farm  and  demesne  lands  of  Child- 
wall  during  her  life.  I  give  to  my  daughter  Strandge  a  silver  cup  of 
the  value  of  10?.,  to  my  son^  Edward  Stanley  son  of  my  said  son  Tho- 

'  It  is  remarkable  that  he  styles  all  liis  grandsons  his  sons. 


14  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

mas  61.  13*.  ^d.  in  money  or  plate,  to  my  son  John  Dvdley  his  nurse 
61.  13*.  j^d.  in  money,  to  my  servant  Eawfe  Birkenhead  61.  13*.  ^d.  a  y' 
for  life,  to  my  servant  Ewan  Carre  61.  13s.  ^d.  a  year,  to  W"  Hum- 
fraye  my  son  Strandge  his  servant  61.  13*.  ^d.  a  year,  to  Claras  Stop- 
forth  61.  17,8.  4d.  a  year  for  life,  to  the  right  Honorable  q  my  very  good 
Lord  Bvrleye,  Lord  High  Treasurer  of  England,  one  piece  of  plate  to 
the  value  of  20I.  in  token  of  remembrance.  These  persons  were  present 
at  the  publishing  and  ensealing  of  this  present  Will  —  John  Storton, 
Thomas  Vavisour,  Doctor,  John  Sherbourn,  John  Eggerton,  W"  Stan- 
ley, "W"  Orrell,  Tho.  Gillibrownde."  There  are  some  brief  notices  of 
the  earl  in  the  MS.  "  Greneal.  Collections,"  of  Edward  thirteenth  earl  of 
Derby,  K.Gr.,  at  Knowsley. 

In  reviewing  the  character  and  proceedings  of  this  great  earl  we 
may  fairly  infer  that  he  was  an  able  statesman  and  a  wily  politician, 
unsettled  in  his  religion  and  Erastian  in  his  views,  an  economist  of 
time,  discrete,  humane,  and  every  where  popular,  especially  in  Lan- 
cashire. 

AN  EPITAPHE  UPON  THE  DEATHE  OF  THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE 
EDWARD  STANLEY,  EARLE  OF  DERBIE,  &c. 

Sari.  MS.  2129, /oZ.  35. 

'  Beliold  heare  lieth  close  in  clay  He  also  Earle  of  Derbie  was 
a  wight  of  worthy  fame  As  his  forfathers  weare 

Of  statelie  stock  of  Lordlie  lyne  Wher  he  no  lesse  authoritie 
'and  Stanleigh  was  his  name  then  they  before  did  beare 

In  Man  he  ruled  as  King  and  ther  Then  Knight  of  Garter  he  was  made 

did  use  sutch  holsome  Lawe  ^  a  noble  ord'  sure 

As  those  that  *  guyded  und'  him  Lo  his  deserts  at  Princes  handes 
w"'  ease  kept  them  in  awe  sutch  favor  did  procure. 


'  On  the  right  hand  side  of  this  MS.  epitaph  there  is  a  repetition,  with  the  follow- 
ing trifling  variations : 

Behould  in  mould  full  could  now  lyeth 
a  wight  of  worthy  fame 
'       that  Stanley  had  to  name 
In  Man  as  prince  he  ruld  and  ther 
did  hold  such  holsome  law 
*  govem'd  *  the 


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And  lyring  in  prosperitie 

devoid  of  care  and  striffe 
And  fortune  fawning  tlius  on  liim 

in  man''  all  his  liffe 
Could  Pompous  pride  or  glorie  raine 

from  vertue  drawe  his  mynde 
No,  he  never  did  degenerat 

from  that  he  was  bv  kynd 
Or  did  he  cease  to  ayde  the  poore 

w""  meate  w""  tong  w"'  hand 
No  sure  his  like  in  all  respectes 

was  not  w'in  this  laud 
How  many  lame  and  impotent 

did  he  w""  paine  and  toile 
Reduce  unto  their  former  health 

w"'in  his  countrey  soile 
How  manye  did  hee  dailie  feede 

whom  neede  had  prickt  before 
How  many  have  yo'^  now  alyve 

so  carefull  for  the  poore  ? 
How  liberall  was  hee  unto  his  men 

how  carefull  for  his  frend 
How  good  unto  his  tenants  still 

even  to  his  latter  ende 


Oh  God  his  faith  unto  his  Prince 

surmounting  was  allwayes 
As  well  was  knowen  by  that  hee  did 

in  those  his  latter  daies 
All  vertuoiis  actes  he  did  declare 

and  vyces  dyd  detest 
What  should  I  say,  Amongst  the  good 

he  was  accompted  best. 
He  causeth  now  the  poore  to  mourne 

w'  many  a  weeping  eye 
His  men  his  fi'endes  his  tenannts  eke 

to  mourue  themselves  applie 
Our  noble  Queene  bewailes  the  losse 

of  such  a  precious  perle 
A  thousand  tymes  no  doubt  she  says 

hee  was  a  noble  earle  ! 
In  health  and  sicknes  well  he  lyvde 

and  well  he  tooke  his  ende 
Would  God  eich  one  would  learne  by  him 

their  spotted  lyffes  to  mend 
The  heaven  doth  now  possesse  his  soule 

the  earthe  his  corps  retayns 
His  passed  lyfe  a  looking  glasse 

for  others  yet  Remayns. 

Finis. 

12.] 


HENRY  EARL  OF  DERBY,  1593. 
Funeral  Certif.     Knoiosley  Evid. 

THE  Ryght  Hon'^ie  Henrye  Erie  of  Derbye  Lord  Stanley  and 
Strange  of  Knockiu,  Lord  and  Governour  of  the  Isle  of 
Man  and  the  Isles,  Knight  of  the  most  Noble  Order  of  y«  Garter, 
Chamberlain  of  the  Citye  and  Countye  of  Chester  and  one  of  the 
Quenes  Maiesties  hoSable  Privye  Counsell  deceased  att  his  house 
called  Lathome  in  Lancashire  on  y®  25*^  daye  of  September  in  y® 
yere  of  our  Lord  1593  and  was  hoSably  buryed  at  Orraeschurch 
with  his  auncestors. 


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He  married  Margarett  sole  childe  to  Henrie  Erie  of  Cumber- 
land by  his  wife  Alianore  one  of  y®  dowters  and  coheires  of  Charles 
Duke  of  Suffolk,  K.G.,  by  his  wife  Marie,  youngest  dowter  to 
Kingc  Henry  VII.  and  sometyme  Queene  dowager  of  France. 

By  his  saide  wife,  who  still  survives,  he  had  issewe  i  Edward 
Lord  Strange,  who  died  when  younge,  2  Ferdinando,  son  and  hey  re, 
now  Erie  of  Derby,  and  who  ys  wedded  and  hath  issewe,  3  Francis, 
who  predeceased  his  father,  4  William  the  youngest  sone  as  yett 
uumaryed. 

The  ffunerall  obseruances  and  ceremonyes  were  prosecuted  about 
this  moost  noble  personage  cheiflye  by  one  who  felt  well  his  un- 
worthynes  and  unhabylyties  to  engage  soe  grete  a  mater. 

[Henry  Stanley,  lord  Strange,  was  the  son  and  heir  of  Edward  third 
earl  of  Derby,  K.Gr.,  by  his  first  wife,  the  lady  Dorothy  Howard, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  second  duke  of  Norfolk,  and  was  born  about 
the  year  1533.  On  the  20th  of  February,  1548,  being  shrove  Sunday, 
he  was  made  knight  of  the  bath  by  Edward  VI.,  that  being  the  day  of 
his  coronation.  (Strype's  Mem.  vol.  v.  p.  309.)  As  soon  as  he  attained 
his  majority  he  married,  on  the  7th  February  1554-5,  lady  Margaret 
[Clifibrd]  only  daughter  of  Henry  12th  baron  de  CliiFord,  and  2nd 
earl  of  Cumberland,  and  of  his  wife,  the  lady  Eleanor,  daughter  and 
coheiress  of  Charles  Brandon,  duke  of  Suffolk,  K.Gr.,  by  his  wife  Mary, 
queen  dowager  of  France  and  sister  of  king  Henry  VIII.  Lord 
Strange's  marriage  took  place  at  Whitehall  chapel,  in  the  presence  of 
the  king  and  queen.  There  was  afterwards  at  the  court  a  great  dinner, 
and  jousts,  and  a  tournament  on  horseback,  with  swords.  After 
supper,  was  introduced  "juego  de  canas,"  or  tilting  with  canes,  a 
Spanish  amusement,  patronized  by  king  Philip,  with  torchlights  and 
cresset  lights  —  sixty  cressets  and  one  hundred  torches  —  and  the 
whole  concluding  with  a  mask  and  a  banquet.  (Machyn's  Diary, 
edited  hy  J.  O.  McJiols,  F.S.A.,  p.  82.) 

On  the  23rd  April  1557,  being  St.  Greorge's  day,  king  Philip  and 
queen  Mary  attended  mass,  solemnised  by  the  bishop  of  Winchester, 
and  Lord  Strange  bare  the  sword  of  state  at  evensong.  {Ibid.  p.  135.) 


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On  the  25th  October  1561,  lord  Strange  and  others  were  appointed  to 
conduct  the  French  ambassadors  on  their  way  from  Scotland,  to  queen 
Elizabeth,  then  at  the  earl  of  Bedford's,  with  a  thousand  horse,  through 
Fleet  street,  and  the  ambassadors  were  afterwards  entertained  by  the 
queen  at  Whitehall  with  the  not  very  feminine  amusement  of  bull  and 
bear  baiting.  {Ibid.  p.  270.) 

On  the  1st  January  1561-2,  lady  Margaret  Strainge  gave  a  new 
year's  gift  to  the  queen  of  a  little  roimd  mount  of  gold  to  contain  a 
pomander  in  it.  (Harl.  MS.,  quoted  in  Nichols's  Frog,  of  Queoi  Eliz. 
vol.  i.)  On  the  same  day  the  queen  presented  new  year's  gifts  to  the 
earl  and  countess  of  Derby,  and  also  to  the  lady  Margaret  Strange, 
"  one  guilt  bolle  with  a  couer  per  oz.  16  oz.  |  dim." 

On  the  13th  April  1564  peace  was  concluded  between  England  and 
France,  and  shortly  afterwards  the  queen  sent  her  choleric  kinsman 
Henry  Carey  lord  Hunsdon,  then  the  lord  chamberlain,  as  ambassador, 
to  invest  the  king  with  the  noble  order  of  the  garter.  He  was  accom- 
panied to  France  by  the  young  lord  Strange  and  others,  who,  finding 
the  king  at  Lyons  on  a  progress,  there  executed  their  commission. 
(Holinshed's  Chron.,  vol.  iii.  p.  1206.)  In  August  of  the  same  year 
the  queen  visited  the  university  of  Cambridge,  and  was  intellectually  en- 
tertained by  disputations,  orations,  sermons,  and  theatricals,  and  dis- 
played her  own  scholarship  by  delivering  an  elaborate  latin  speech  to  the 
university.  Amongst  the  ladies  of  her  train  was  Margaret,  lady  Strange, 
who  was  accommodated,  with  other  persons  of  distinction,  in  the  Fellows' 
chambers  in  King's  college.  (Nichols's  Prog,  of  Queen  Eliz.,  vol.  i.)  On 
the  25th  December  1565  the  queen  attended  divine  service  in  state,  and 
received  the  holy  communion,  the  sword  being  borne  by  the  earl  of 
Warwick,  and  her  majesty's  train  of  purple  velvet,  embroidered  with 
silver  very  richly  set  with  stones,  was  borne  by  the  lady  Strange.  {Hid. 
p.  199.) 

In  1565  Henry  lord  Berkeley  bought  a  lute  of  mother  of  pearl  for 
his  lady,  for  which  queen  Elizabeth  had  offered  one  hundred  marks. 
This  lute,  lord  Berkeley,  when  a  widower,  about  ten  years  afterwards 
gave  to  the  countess  of  Derby.  .  .  .  This  same  lute  was  about  the 
year  1810  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Jordan  the  actress,  who  had  bought 
it  at  a  sale.   (Fosbroke's  Extracts  from  tlie  Berkeley  MSS.,  p.  192.) 

On  the  31st  August  1566  the  queen  visited  Oxford  imiversity,  and 


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two  days  before  her  coming  thither  the  marquis  of  Northampton, 
Dudley  earl  of  Leicester,  the  chancellor  of  the  university,  lord  Strange, 
sir  William  Cecil,  and  others,  repaired  to  Oxford  to  see  what  provision 
had  been  made  for  her  majesty's  entertainment.  Their  oavu  entertain- 
ment and  reception  during  their  stay  were,  however,  much  damped  by 
its  "  raining  vehemently,"  notwithstanding  which  Cecil  found  an  oppor- 
tunity of  inquiring  of  the  learned  Mr.  Pottes  why  Aristotle  wrote  De 
Monarcliia,  there  being  at  that  time  no  monarch  in  the  world.  On  the 
6th  September  a  convocation  was  held,  and  several  distinguished  noble- 
men and  gentlemen  were  created  and  incorporated  masters  of  arts, 
amongst  the  rest  Henry  lord  Strange. 

October  24th  1572  he  succeeded  his  father  as  fourth  earl  of  Derby, 
being  at  that  time  in  his  fortieth  year.  On  the  ist  January  1572-3  the 
new  year's  gifts  to  queen  Elizabeth  by  the  lady  Margaret  countess  of 
Derby  consisted  of  "  First,  twoe  juelles  of  golde,  the  one  being  an 
Oystrege  [?  oyster  egg]  garnished  with  two  blue  saphers,  sundry  smale 
diamondes  and  rubyes  wdth  two  perles  hanging  by  a  smale  cheine  at  a 
knotte  having  two  dyamoues  and  rubyes  thearat ;  thother  being  a  little 
tablet  of  golde  haveing  thearin  a  spyder  and  a  flye  of  ophalle,  with  one 
perle  pendaunte  like  two.  The  same  delivered  by  her  Majesties  com- 
maundement  to  the  Lady  Mary  Vere."  (Nichols's  Prog,  of  Queen 
Eliz.,  vol.  i.) 

April  24th  1574  the  earl  was  elected  one  of  the  knights  of  the  garter, 
and  was  installed  at  Windsor  with  Henry  Herbert  earl  of  Pembroke 
on  the  20th  May  following.  (Beltz's  Memor.,  p.  clxxxi.)  The  warrant 
for  his  robes  as  K.Gr.  is  dated  17th  May  1574.  {Add.  MS.,  5756,  f. 
227.)  Li  1576  he  was  summoned  to  parliament  and  took  his  seat  on 
the  8th  Pebruary  in  the  same  year.  He  and  the  high  commissioners  of 
the  queen  assembled  in  Manchester  and  issued  stringent  orders  against 
pipers,  minstrels,  and  bull  baitings  on  Sabbath  days,  wakes  and  feasts. 

January  ist  1577-8.  "  Greven  to  the  Queen  by  therle  of  Dai'by  in 
golde  20I.  and  presented  by  the  Queen  to  the  Lady  Margaret  Countes 
of  Darby  one  dooble  booles  [bowl]  guilte.  Brandon,  [probably  plate 
which  had  belonged  to  the  Brandon  family]  per  oz.  50  oz.  and  Her 
Majesty  presented  to  the  Earl  of  Darby  thre  booles  with  a  cover  of 
silver  and  guilte,  per  oz.  30  oz." 

January  ist,  1578-9.     '*  Presented  to  the  Queen  by  the  Lady  Marga- 


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ret  Countes  of  Derby,  a  trayne  gowne  of  tawny  velvett."  (Nicliols's 
Tro(].  of  Queen  Miz.,  vol.  i.)  Notwithstanding  this  exchange  of  new 
year's  gifts  and  the  apparent  mutual  feeling  of  regard,  the  countess  of 
Derby  in  the  year  following  was  cruelly  suspected  of  disloyalty  to  the 
queen,  and,  being  placed  in  some  sort  of  confinement,  sorrowfully 
complained  of  the  hardship,  and  styled  herself  "her  majesty's  pri- 
soner."   (Harl.  MS.  cod.  'jS'jJ.  i66.) 

In  1579  the  earl  chiefly  resided,  from  political  motives,  at  Alport  lodge 
in  Manchester,  and  was  associated  with  bishop  Chaderton,  sir  Eichard 
Sherburne,  sir  John  EadcliiFe,  and  sir  Edward  Eitton,  in  executing  the 
penal  laws  against  recusants,  and  in  1581  those  gentlemen,  along  with 
the  earl,  were  commissioners  for  compounding  with  the  tenants  of 
the  college  of  Manchester  who  had  obtained  fraudulent  leases  of  the 
tithes  and  other  possessions  of  that  plundered  church.  (Peck's  Desid. 
Cur.,  lib.  iv.  fol.) 

In  May  1580  his  wife,  who  had  suffered  for  some  time  from  rheuma- 
tism, or  some  similar  affection,  and  had  employed  an  unprincipled 
medical  man  who  resided  in  her  house,  was  scandalously  charged  by 
him  with  disloyalty  to  the  queen,  and  she  was  forthwith  placed  under 
restraint,  and  committed  to  an  easy  surveillance,  but  called  by  her  "  a 
prison."  Her  own  letter  to  WaLsingham  on  the  subject  is  published  in 
sir  Harris  Nicholas's  Life  of  Ration.  "With  the  queen  her  crime  was 
not  being  addicted  to  the  fashionable  art  of  astrology  or  of  tenebrous 
necromancy,  but  in  truth,  her  being  the  daughter  of  the  lady  Eleanor 
Brandon,  and  too  near  the  succession. 

On  the  26th  January  1584-5  the  earl  was  appointed  by  the  queen  to 
invest  Henry  III.  king  of  Erance,  with  the  order  of  the  garter,  and 
having  taken  leave  of  her  majesty  at  Grreenwich  on  the  20th,  he  passed 
through  London  with  a  splendid  retinue  of  lords  and  nobles.  {Stanley 
Papers,  pt.  ii.  introd.  p.  xlix.)  Holinshed  gives  a  journal  of  all  the 
proceedings  until  his  lordship's  return  to  England  on  the  12th  March 
following,  and  says  that  the  earl  made  no  speech  to  the  Erench  king, 
and  yet  in  Cotton  MS.  Calig.  E.  vii.  f.  230-1  is  a  copy  of  the  speech, 
either  made  or  intended  to  be  made  on  Thursday  the  18th  Eebruary, 
when  the  investiture  took  place,  which  was  at  evensong,  as  the  earl  and 
his  companions  refused  to  be  present  at  the  mass.  (Camden's  ^liz., 
book  iii.  p.  305.) 


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On  the  2oth  June  1585  the  lords  of  the  council  asssemblcd  at  Green- 
wich, Henry  earl  of  Derby  being  present,  and  addressed  a  letter  to 
Ferdinando  lord  Strange,  bishop  Chaderton,  and  the  other  Lancashire 
and  Clieshire  magistrates,  complaining  that  scA^eral  libels  had  been 
formerly  published  against  the  queen,  and  that  lately  a  "most  vile, 
slanderous,  hatefull  and  infamous  book  "  had  been  published  against 
her  right  trusty  and  well  beloved  cousin  Eobert,  earl  of  Leicester, 
called  Leicester's  Commonwealth,  and  requiring  that  it  should  be  sup- 
pressed. Leicester's  connection  with  the  two  northern  palatinates 
induced  him  to  use  his  influence  with  the  queen  to  obtain  this  in- 
junction, as  the  attacks  upon  his  character,  principles,  and  objects, 
were,  Camden  cautiously  says,  "not  without  mixture  of  some  un- 
truths," widely  circulated.  (Camden's  Annals  of  Eliz.,  p.  419  ;  Forbes' 
State  Papers,  p.  711 .) 

The  earl  was  always  alive  to  the  importance  of  the  maritime  defences 
of  the  country,  and  seems  to  have  had  the  most  precise  information  on 
the  subject.  He  possessed,  in  MS.,  "  The  Booke  of  the  whole  Navye," 
containing  the  names  of  all  the  queen's  ships,  with  their  tonnage, 
number  of  mariners,  gunners  and  soldiers,  dated  the  27th  December 
1585.  The  whole  navy  at  that  time  consisted  of  thirty-six  ships.  He 
also  had  another  MS.  list,  called  "  A  Book  of  the  Numbers,  Names  and 
Burden  of  all  the  Ships,  Barques  and  Vessels,  with  the  names  of  all 
Masters  and  able  Mariners  belonging  thereto,  within  or  appertaining 
to  the  Eiver  of  Chester."  This  book  was  written  by  William  "Wall, 
the  mayor,  in  February  1586,  by  the  command  of  the  earl  of  Derby, 
to  whom  it  is  dedicated.  It  appears  that  all  the  vessels  amounted  to 
fifteen.  To  this  is  subjoined  a  similar  account  of  the  barques  belonging 
to  the  river  near  Preston,  in  Lancashire,  called  the  water  of  the  Ribble, 
\vritten  by  Laurence  Walle,  mayor  of  Preston,  at  the  command  of  the 
earl  of  Derby,  the  lord-lieutenant  of  the  county.  The  number  of 
vessels  was  eight.  There  is  also  an  account  of  the  vessels  belonging 
to  the  river  AVyer,  in  Lancashire,  addressed  to  the  earl  in  the  same 
year,  by  Henry  Butler,  esq.,  and  William  Skillicorne,  gent.  The  num- 
ber was  twenty-eight.  This  is  followed  by  another  account  of  the 
vessels  belonging  to  the  Peel  of  Fouldrey  and  its  creeks,  in  Furnes 
and  Cartmell  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  addressed  to  the  earl,  in  the 
same  year,  by  John  Bradley,  esq.,  and  John  Eichardson,  gent.     The 


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number  of  vessels  was  only  five.  To  this  succeeds  a  list  of  all  the 
vessels  in  the  port  of  Liverpool,  taken  in  the  same  year,  with  the 
names  of  the  places  to  which  they  were  bound,  and  the  owners,  mari- 
ners, &c.  The  number  was  twenty-eight.  All  these  enquiries  were 
made  by  the  earl  at  the  request  of  the  Privy  council,  in  the  prospect 
of  the  Spanish  invasion,  which  led  to  the  granting  of  an  entire  subsidy, 
as  well  as  two  fifteenths  and  tenths,  by  the  parliament,  the  first  pay- 
ment of  which  was  to  be  made  in  November  1587,  and  the  second 
in  November  1588.  The  lord-lieutenant  appointed  the  collectors  for 
Lancashire,  and  they  were  selected  from  his  deputy-lieutenants  and 
justices  of  the  peace.  (Shane  IIS.)  The  original  assessment  Avith  the 
sums  paid  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  hundred  of  Salford  is  amongst  the 
Lane.  MSS.  at  Milnrow  vicarage. 

The  earl  obtained  at  the  same  time  "  A  List  of  all  the  Soldiers  and 
Munition  in  the  Castle  of  Eushen  and  Castle  Peel  in  the  Isle  of  Man," 
and  was  informed  of  the  provisions  wanting  there.  At  the  same  time 
a  hope  was  expressed  that  his  lordship  would  speedily  supply  the  same. 
And  to  this  is  added  the  number  of  all  sorts  of  serviceable  men  within  the 
said  island.  The  number  of  horsemen  Avas  41,  calliver-men  18,  bow- 
men 286,  and  bill-men  357,  but  all  much  unprovided  Avith  Aveapons  and 
other  furniture,  as  appeared  by  the  signatures  of  R.  Sherburne,  H. 
Scarisbricke,  "W".  Lucas,  T.  Burscoghe  and  H.  Hadclyfie.   (Ibid.) 

On  October  14th  i586,  being  of  the  privy  council,  he  sat  in  the  hall 
of  Potheringay  as  president,  on  the  trial  of  the  queen  of  Scots,  his  wife's 
cousin,  being  one  of  the  tAventy-five  peers  who  passed  sentence  on  that 
unfortunate  queen,  after  her  wearisome  and  harsh  captivity.  The 
sanction  of  the  earl  to  that  foul  deed  which  terminated  the  long  inevi- 
table fate  of  Mary  could  not  fail  to  be  peculiarly  acceptable  to  Eliza- 
beth. The  tAvo  queens  were  the  representatives  of  the  tAvo  great 
divisions  of  the  church,  and  it  would  hardly  be  expected  that  the  strong 
Anglican  A'iews  of  earl  Henry  would  allow  his  more  benignant  feelings 
and  gentler  sympathies  to  prevail  over  his  sincere  religious  conA'ictions. 
That  he  was  influenced  in  his  policy  by  the  external  pressure  of  the 
court,  in  what  he  deemed  an  indispensable  necessity  and  a  public  duty 
to  the  state,  seems  indisputable,  although  he  considered,  like  all  dupes, 
that  his  judgment  Avas  independent.  There  is  evidence  to  prove  that 
he  had  paid  great  attention  to  the  Avhole  of  the  proceedings  against 


22  LANCASQIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

the  queen  of  Scots,  as  amongst  his  evidences  are  found  "Arguments  for 
the  sudden  execution  of  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,"  but  whether  this  was 
the  production  of  his  lordship  or  merely  a  document  placed  in  his 
hands  to  furnish  him  with  arguments  in  favour  of  the  measure,  is 
unknown.  {Shane  MS.  874.)  The  writer  opens  his  dissertation  by 
asserting  that  it  was  useless  to  adduce  reasons  in  favour  of  a  measure 
which,  he  assumed,  was  indispensably  necessary,  and  that  it  were 
irrational  to  suppose  that  it  might  safely  be  deferred.  His  lordship 
had  also  carefully  transcribed  queen  Elizabeth's  speech  in  parliament 
in  1586,  concerning  the  "Form  of  proceeding  against  the  Queen  of 
Scots,  and  her  Majesty's  reasons  for  delaying  the  execution  of  Mary  in 
reply  to  the  Petition  of  the  Commons."  (Ditto  in  Oldi/s.)  This  was  an 
elaborate  and  well  written  speech,  and  embraced  such  points  as  were 
likely  to  be  acceptable  to  the  nation,  nor  did  the  artful  queen  omit  to 
inform  her  faithful  subjects  that  she  had  withheld  the  fatal  warrant 
until  "  she  had  at  first  with  earnest  prayer  besought  the  Divine  Ma- 
jesty so  to  illuminate  her  understanding  and  inspire  her  with  his  grace 
that  she  might  do  that  which  would  establish  the  church,  preserve  their 
estates,  and  conduce  to  the  prosperity  of  the  country."  The  religious 
tone,  which  was  not  adopted  without  due  consideration,  was  a  sensa- 
tional appeal  to  prejudices  and  feelings  already  deeply  excited  against 
the  queen  of  Scots  and  her  religious  creed. 

The  earl  had  also  collected  "  Historical  examples  of  precedents  of 
Sovereign  Princes  being  condemned  and  put  to  death  in  a  formal  and 
advised  manner,  from  reasons  of  State,"  and  a  comparison  was  instituted 
between  the  cases  adduced  and  that  of  the  queen  of  Scots  ;  nor  had  he 
omitted  noticing  some  grave  and  startling  instances  of  poj)es,  vested, 
as  they  affirmed,  with  infallibility,  who  had  solemnly  given  their  judg- 
ment for  the  execution  of  kings,  and  what  was  still  more  startling,  but 
scarcely  so  much  to  the  purpose,  that  Urban  VIII.  not  only  put  to 
death  eight  cardinals,  his  brethren,  but  having  their  bodies  reduced  to 
powder  carried  them  about  with  him  in  portmanteaus,  and  had  their 
purple  hats  borne  in  state  before  him,  as  a  warning  and  example  to 
traitors !  The  authorities  are  all  duly  cited,  and  were  considered  to 
bear  upon  the  case  of  the  royal  prisoner  at  Fotheringay.  The  earl's 
near  family  connection  with  queen  Mary  could  not  fail  to  strengthen, 
in  the  estimation  at  least  of  the  reflecting  part  of  the  public,  the 


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apparent  justice  of  Elizabeth's  proceedings,  and  to  deepen  tlie  im- 
pression of  Mary's  presumed  guilt. 

The  earl  had  also  in  his  possession  {Shane  MS.  874)  a  copy  of  the 
speech  of  queen  Elizabeth  in  answer  to  the  French  ambassador, 
monsieur  Delievre,  and  the  rest  of  his  company,  justifying  her  proceed- 
ings against  queen  Mary.  She  averred  that  her  sorrow  on  the  deaths 
of  her  father,  of  the  king  her  brother,  and  of  the  queen  her  sister,  had 
been  less  than  that  occasioned  by  the  death  of  Mary  her  cousin  of 
Scotland,  and  although  she  did  not  employ  her  "  great  oath"  to  corro- 
borate her  assertion,  she  adopted  language  scarcely  less  strong. 

Amongst  the  earl's  papers  was  found  a  MS.  entitled  "The  Manner 
of  the  Execution  of  the  Queen  of  Scots  the  8  of  Feb''  1586-7,  in  the 
presence  of  such  whose  names  are  underwritten,"  and  contains  the  well 
known  details  of  that  gloomy  tragedy.  (Shane  MS.  874  ;  earl  of  Derby's 
Hist.  Collect. ;  Oldys'  Brit,  Lihr.) 

On  the  5th  July  1587  the  earl  was  fixed  upon  as  ambassador  to 
the  court  of  France,  and  he  requested  that  lord  Burghley  would  give 
him  timely  notice.  He  was  summoned  to  appear  at  court  previous  to 
his  embassy,  and  that  interview  appears  to  have  cancelled  the  appoint- 
ment. (Lansd.  MS.,  53,  56.)  He  was  afterwards  appointed,  in  Septem- 
ber 1587,  ambassador  to  the  Low  countries,  and  was  accompanied  by 
certain  commissioners,  to  treat  of  peace  with  the  prince  of  Parma, 
general  of  the  forces  of  the  king  of  Spain,  in  Flanders ;  and  on  the 
1st  December  1587  he  solicited  lord  Burghley  for  a  loan  of  loooZ.  to 
support  his  embassy.  {Lansd.  MS.  16-66.)  In  1587-8  he  wrote  to 
the  earl  of  Leicester  notifying  his  arrival  at  Ostend.  {Cotton  MS. 
Yesp.  cviii.  f.  100.  He  does  not  appear  to  have  been  an  active  or 
vigorous  diplomatist,  but  he  punctually  executed  his  orders  and  en- 
joyed the  personal  friendship  of  the  sovereign  of  his  own  country,  and 
was  evidently  respected  by  the  sovereigns  of  France  and  Spain.  There 
is  no  reason  to  doubt  that  he  was  not  only  an  able  but  an  upright  and 
honourable  administrator.  He  was  not  unworthy  to  be  the  friend  of 
Cecil  and  to  be  associated  with  the  virtuous  Chaderton,  and  one  of  the 
best  acts  of  his  life  was  his  personal  interposition  with  queen  Elizabeth 
to  restore  and  preserve  the  ruined,  despoiled  and  disendowed  Collegiate 
church  of  Manchester,  especially  when  that  act  is  referred  to  the  low 
standard  of  the  times  in  which  he  lived.  {Stanley  Fap.,  vol.  ii.  p.  cclixxi. 


24  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

note.)  He  shared  iu  the  councils  of  the  great  statesmen  of  the  day, 
and  seems  to  have  been,  upon  the  whole,  implicitly  trusted  by  them  in 
the  events  of  a  most  critical  and  exciting  period  of  our  history. 

On  the  14th  April  1589,  Philip  Howard,  earl  of  Arundel,  eldest  son 
of  Thomas,  fourth  duke  of  Norfolk,  Iv.Gr.,  was  frivolously  arraigned  of 
high  treason,  and  at  this  date  the  earl  of  Derby  was  constituted  lord 
high  steward  of  England  at  the  trial,  which  took  place  in  Westminster 
hall  before  twenty-five  of  his  peers.  The  subject  matter  was  chiefly 
connected  with  the  queen  of  Scots  and  cardinal  Allen.  The  earl  was 
feebly  convicted  and  attainted,  but  not  executed.  He  died  in  prison. 
Lord  Derby  was  first  cousin  of  Catherine  Howard  the  fifth  queen  of 
Henry  VIII.  He  was  also  first  cousin  of  Henry  earl  of  Surrey,  the 
celebrated  poet,  the  grandfather  of  the  attainted  earl  of  Arundel,  and 
we  may  hope  that  this  relationship  had  some  influence  in  saving  the 
young  and  harshly- treated  earl  of  Arundel  from  the  disastrous  fate  of 
his  father  and  grandfather. 

In  1589  the  earl  was  appointed  by  queen  Elizabeth,  chamberlain  of 
the  city  and  county  palatine  of  Chester,  and  continued  in  that  ancient 
and  honourable  office  until  his  death.    {Chetlunn  Miscell.  vol.  ii.  p.  30.) 

The  Household  'Regulations  of  the  earl  and  an  interesting  Diary  con- 
taining the  names  of  his  intimate  friends  and  guests  in  Lancashire, 
from  the  year  1572  to  1590,  have  been  printed  by  the  Cuetham  Society. 
There  is  also  in  the  same  volume  an  excellent  etching  of  his  portrait 
from  the  original  at  Worden  hall,  an  autograph  letter,  and  some  notices 
of  his  domestic  proceedings.  He  had  issue  by  his  wife  three  sons, 
two  of  whom  successively  inherited  the  titles,  but  having  lived  un- 
happily with  her  in  private  life,  her  name  nowhere  occurs  in  his  social 
and  domestic  circle^  nor  in  that  of  his  father,  whilst  they  resided  iu 
Lancashire.  Neither  is  it  to  be  named  to  his  credit  that,  surrounded  by 
austere  puritan  preachers  and  active  protestant  laymen,  he  had  more 
than  one  mistress.  Several  of  his  natural  children  were  recognized, 
educated,  preferred  and  settled  in  life  by  him,  and  yet  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that,  in  the  latter  years  of  his  life,  his  heart  was  full  of  love  to 
God  and  his  fellow-men.  Camden  says  {Hist.  Queen  Eliz.,  p.  529) 
that  Margaret  lady  Derby  had  "  a  womanish  curiosity"  in  prying  into 
the  future,  "  consulting  with  wizzards  and  cunning  men,"  and  hints 
that  she  aspired  to  the  crown,  her  mother  being  the  first  cousin  of  queen 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


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Elizabeth,  aud  after  the  execution  of  the  queen  of  Scots,  she  and  James 
I.  were  in  an  equal  degree  the  descendants  of  the  two  daughters  of 
Henry  VII.  We  know  almost  nothing  of  the  history  of  the  life  of  this 
great  lady,  and  details  are  wanting  to  remove  misapprehensions,  to 
explain  charges,  and  to  supply  motives  connected  with  her  proceedings. 
She  had,  perhaps,  little  of  the  heroic  hearing  of  her  great  Plantagenet 
ancestors,  and  to  turn  her  views  to  the  succession,  even  in  imagination, 
must  have  been  a  daring  violation  of  her  fidelity  in  the  estimation  of 
her  lonely  and  unhappy  maiden  cousin,  and  not  to  be  brooked  by  the 
contemptible  spies  and  myrmidons  -w^th  whom  Elizabeth  surrounded 
all  her  rivals,  male  and  female.  The  chivalrous  loyalty  and  uncompro- 
mising protestantism  of  lord  Derby  —  although  neither  of  these  escaped 
suspicion  —  probably  saved  his  wife  from  a  catastrophe  similar  to  that 
of  Fotheringay  and  his  own  lands  from  confiscation. 

The  earl,  like  his  father,  appears  to  have  been  surrounded  by  men  of 
various  creeds  and  temperaments,  and  to  have  enjoyed  a  large  share  of 
personal  popularity,  and  his  many-sided  influence  vibrated  throughout 
the  county. 

Mr.  Crossley  has  pointed  out  to  me  the  following  pleasing  reference 
to  the  earl  in  a  MS.  volume  of  excellent  poems  in  his  library,  written 
at  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century  by  Eobert  Hey  wood  of 
Heywood,  esq.,  a  Lancashire  gentleman,  who,  probably,  was  personally 
acquainted  with  his  lordship  : 

Good  Henry  Earle  of  Darby,  last, 

Coiild  ne're  endure  (I  hear  some  say) 

A  Suitor  shoidd  come  to  him  waste, 

And  discontented  goe  away  : 

Ah,  coidd  we  thus  of  Christ  conceaue, 
What  sweet  impressions  would  it  leaue. 

His  wiU  is  dated  2rst  September  1592,  and  he  requested  that  hia 
body  might  be  buried  in  his  chapel  at  Ormskirk.  Collins  (Brydges* 
Peerage,  vol.  iii.  p.  80,)  states  that  the  earl  died  on  the  25th  September 
1592,  but  his  "Funeral  Certificate"  will  give  the  correct  date.  The 
countess  of  Derby,  who  seems  to  have  attracted  little  public  sympathy, 
survived  her  husband  three  years,  and  also  her  son  Ferdinando,  dying 
at  Isleworth  house.  Dr.  Groodman  the  dean  of  "Westminster,  wrote 
to  Mr.  Hicks  on  the  subject  of  her  burial  in  the  abbey,  October  22nd, 
1596.  {Lansd.  MS.  83,  32.) 


26  I.AN(^ASinHE  FLINKUAL  UHRTIFICATES. 

ll  will  1)1'  uoliccd  lliiil  ii  place  was  assigned  her  wliich  hIic  probably 
did  no!  ap|)ri>iMale,  i\(>r  yet  ap])ropriatc,  in 

The  Proccecdings  at  the  Funcrall  o/'Heney  Earl  of  Deebt 
the  4'*  Decrmher  1593. 
Two  Conductors  on  Horseback,  in  Black  Coats  [?  cloaks]. 
Then  the  100  Poor  Men  in  Gowues  who  went  on  foot  from  Lathom  to 

Onnskirk. 
Then  40  of  the  Earls  Yeomen,  being  his  Tenants. 
Then  the  Standakd  with  a  Trumpeter,  sounding  the  Dole,  borne  by 

Mr.  Edward  Warren. 
Then   the   iir.st   Horse,   covered   w"'   black   cloth,  w"'  a  shallerou  and 

Escocheons,  led  by  2  Yeomen  in  Black  Coats,  on  foot. 
Then  the  Servants  of  (uMillemen  and  Esii'"  on  horse  back,  in  black 

("U)akes  2  and  2. 
Then  the  Servants  of  Knights  and  Barons,  on  horse  back,  in  black 

Cloakes. 
Then  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury  Servants  in  Cloakes. 
Then  the  Uel'uncts  Servants  —  Retayners. 

Then  the  Lindon  borne  by  Mr.  Edward  Stanley,  and  a  Trumpet  sound- 
ing the  Dole. 
Then  the  second  horse  for  that  Earldomo.  covered  w  ith  black  cloth  and 

Escuchions,  as  before. 
Then  the  better  sort  of  Gentlemen  and  Retayners,  Friends,  and  Kindred 

of  the  defuncte,  in  Cloaks,  on  Horse-back. 
Then  the  I-^arl's  Chaplains,  and  Prebends,  2  and  2. 
Then  Doctors  of  Divinity,  and  Physic,  and  Counsellors  at  Law. 
Then  the  Secretorye  and  other   oflicers,  the  Steward,  Treasurer,  and 

Comptroller. 
Then  certain  ])articular  persons,  and  children  of  Kindred,   with   the 
Majors  of  Chester  and  Le'i'poolo. 
Then  Knights  and  ancient  Squires  in  Gowns. 
The  Bislio])  of  Chester  y*   Pukacuk]!,  and  had  his  Gent"  Usher  and 

Chaplains  attending  him 

The  Banner  of  Honour  or  Great  Banner  borne  by 

Mr.  Osbaldeston. 
Then  a  I'age  on  horseback,  carried  the  Earl's  guilt 
Sj)urr  on  a  Statl". 


LANCASHIRE   FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  27 

The  Helm  and  Crestc  borne  by  Somersett 
The  Sword  and  Targe  by  Lancaster  -Herald. 

The  Coate  of  Amies  b/  Richmond 
Then  the  Chariot  drawn  by  4  horses  with  4  Pages  on  their  back  and 
a  Yeoman  to  leade  everye  Horse. 

The  Corps, 
being  covered  w***  Black  Velvet,  and  Escochions. 
Then  the  Horse  of  Estate,  covered  w***  Black  Velvet,  led  by  the  Grent" 

of  the  Horse,  bare  headed,  on  Horse-back. 
The  2  Grenf*  Ushers — one  for  the  Earle  dead,  and  y*=  other  for  the 
Earle  livinge. 

Then  M«  Garter. 
Then  Ferdinando,  Earle  of  Derbte,  Chiefe  Mourner,  riding  alone 

with  his  Hood  on,  and  his  traine  borne. 
Then  2  Assistants ;  the  Earl  of  Shrewsburye  and  7  others. 

Two  Grentlemeu  Ushers. 
Then  The  Countesse,  and  all  other  Ladyes  in  their  Coaches. 

The  Usher  of  the  Hall  and  Chief  Porter. 
Then  the  2  Teomeu  Ushers. 
Then  all  the  Tcomen  Servants,  in  Blacke.   (Add.  MS.,  6297,  f.  264.) 

The  preacher  was  Dr.  William  Chaderton,  born  at  Nuthurst,  near 
Manchester,  who  had  been  at  this  time  about  fourteen  years  bishop  of 
Chester,  and  "always  a  very  great  friend  to  the  house  of  Derby." 
Preaching  the  funeral  sermon  of  earl  Henry  "for  some  passages  whereof 
he  was  like  to  be  called  in  question,  though  perhaps  himself  knew  not 
so  much,  I  was  present  (says  sir  John  Harington)  when  one  told  a 
great  lord  [?  Essex]  that  loved  not  Ferdinando  the  last  Earle,  how  this 
Bishop  having  first  magnified  the  dead  Earle  for  his  Fidelity,  Justice, 
Wisdom  and  such  Virtues  as  made  him  the  best  beloved  man  of  his 
rank  (which  praise  was  not  altogether  undeserved)  he  afterwards  used 
this  apostrophe  to  the  Earle  present:  'and  you  (said  he),  noble  Earle, 
that  not  only  inherit,  but  exceed  your  father's  virtues,  learn  to  keep  the 
love  of  your  country  as  your  father  did.  Tou  give  (said  he)  in  your 
arms,  three  Legs.  Know  you  what  they  signify?  I  will  tell  you. 
They  signify  three  shires — Cheshire,  Derbyshire,'''  and  Lancashire. 

®  Bishop  Chaderton  ought  to  have  known  that  the  Hundred  of  West  Derby  in 
Lancashiro,  from  which  the  enrl  derived  his  title  was  not  a  shire. 


28  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

Stand  you  fast  on  these  three  legs,  and  you  shall  fear  none  of  their  arms.* 
At  which  this  Earl  a  little  moved,  said  in  some  heat,  and  not  without 
an  oath,  '  This  Priest,  I  believe,  hopes  that  one  day  I  shall  make  him 
three  courtsies  with  my  three  legs.'  "  (Peck's  Desid.  Curiosa,  vol.  i. 
prof.  p.  V.  fol. ;  Ilarington's  Nu(J(B  Antiq.  vol.  ii.  p.  114.)  The  meaning 
implied  seems  to  be  that  Chadertou  hoped  to  become  archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  and  the  earl  would  do  homage  to  him  as  the  lord  primate 
of  England.    Chaderton  was  translated  to  Lincoln,  but  not  to  Lambeth. 

R.-\ 


WILLIAM  FLEETWOOD,  1593. 

MS.  Tin.  92.     216  Coll.  Arm. 

MEMORANDN'^  Willm  Fleetwood  Esquire  one  of  her  Mat^ 
Serieants  at  lawe  sonne  and  heire  of  Robt.  Fleetwood  in  the 
Countye  of  Lancaster  Esquire  Deceassed  the  xxviiiti^  of  February 
1593  whose  Funerall  was  worshipfully  solemnized  the  xxvii''^^  of 
INIarche  following  at  the  pi  she  Churche  of  Great  Mussenden  in 
Com.  Buck,  p  Nicholas  Detheck  ais  Windeso^  and  W"^  Seager  ats 
Somersett  heraults  of  Armes. 

Hee  had  to  wife  Marian  one  of  the  Daughters  of  John  Boler  of 
Kingsey  in  the  County  of  Bucks.  Gent,  and  by  her  had  issue  sixe 
sonnes  and  tow  Daughters  lyviug  Viz.  Will™  eldest  sonne  the 
second  Edward  the  third  Thomas  the  fourthe  James  tlie  fyfthe 
Robt.  and  the  sixthe  Franncis  Elizabeth  his  eldest  Daughter 
maried  to  S""  Thomas  Challoner  of  Stepleclaydon  in  Com.  Buck. 
Knight  who  hath  issue  by  her  nowe  lyving  three  sonnes  viz.  Willfh 
Edward  and  Thomas  and  one  daughter  named  Marye.  Cordela  the 
second  Daughter  of  the  aforesaid  Will"!  Fleetwood  as  yett  is  vn- 
married. 

Pedigrees  of  this  family  were  entered  at  the  Visitation  of  Lancaster 
1613,  and  of  Bucks  in  1634  and  1669.      He  was  reader  of  the  Middle 


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Temple  and  recorder  of  the  city  of  London,  and  married  Marian,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Bailey  of  Kingsley,  co.  Bucks,  and  afterwards  knighted,  a 
pedigree  of  whom  and  other  notices  of  his  family  may  be  found  in 
Lipscomb's  Bucks,  vol.  ii.  p.  377.  Eobert  Fleetwood,  the  father  of 
the  defunct,  was  the  son  of  "William  Fleetwood  of  Hesketh,  by  Ellen, 
daughter  of  Eobert  Stan  dish,  a  pedigree  of  whose  descendants  was 
recorded  in  Coll.  Arm.  in  1772,  amongst  whom  occurs  general  Charles 
Fleetwood  (called  lord  Fleetwood),  who  married  Bridget,  daughter  of 
Oliver  Cromwell  and  widow  of  general  Ireton. 

"William  Fleetwood  is  here  styled  an  esquire,  but  by  most  authorities 
he  is  represented  to  have  been  a  knight.  He  is  sometimes  stated  to 
have  been  an  illegitimate  son.^  His  death  is  misstated  to  have  taken 
place  on  28th  February  1594  in  Hulton's  Penivortham,  Chetham 
series,  vol.  ssx.  Introd.  p.  Iv.,  where  there  is  a  good  historical  notice 
of  his  family. 

"William  Fleetwood  was  of  Heskin  in  the  parish  of  Eccleston,  and 
not  of  Hesketh  in  the  parish  of  Croston,  both  in  the  county  palatine. 

Sir  William,  eldest  son  of  the  recorder,  married  Ann,  daughter  of 
Eobert  Barton  of  Smithills,  co.  Lane,  esq.,  and  had  issue  four  sons  and 
six  daughters.     {Lane.  MSS.,  vol.  xii.) 


HENRY  STANLEY,  1598. 
Funeral  Certificate.     Warden  Evid. 

HENRY  STANLEY  of  Bickerstath  Esquier  died  att  his 
howse  of  Bickerstath  in  the  Countie  of  Lancaster  on 
the  xxiii  Julie  1598  and  is  buryed  at  Ormeskirke  in  the  sayd 
Countie.     He  was  the  sonn  of  Sir  James  Stanley  of  Croshall  in 

^  As  regards  the  presumption  of  his  illegitimacy,  it  appears  that  his  arms  used  at 
his  funeral  were  without  any  distinctions  of  illegitimacy,  and  were  so  testified  hy 
Harvey,  clarencieux.  Perhaps  the  notion  of  illegitimacy  may  hare  arisen  from  the 
arms  of  Fleetwood,  annexed  to  his  pedigree  in  the  Visitations  of  Buckinghamshire, 
being  differenced  by  a  bordure  compony  argent  and  gules;  but  the  bordui-e  was 
frequently  used  simply  as  a  mark  of  cadency,  and  had  no  certain  signification  of  bas- 
tardy. 


30  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

Lancashire  kuight  and  the  nephicue  to  Thomas  Erie  of  Derby 
deceassed. 

He  married  Margarett  dowter  to  Peter  Stanley  of  Aughton  and 
Bickcrstath  Esquier,  who  was  the  sonn  to  Sir  William  Stanley  of 
Hooton  in  the  Palatine  of  Chester  knight,  and  by  her  had  issewe 
Edward  Stanley  his  sonn  and  heire  now  of  Bickerstath,  James  the 
second  sonn,  and  three  dowterSj  Jane  married  to  Gabriell  Hesketh 
of  Aughton,  and  Ann  and  Dorothie  as  yett  vnmarried. 

Ita  test'  W™  iFarington. 

[Henry  Stanley,  of  Bickerstaffe,  esq.,  was  the  third  son  of  sir  James 
and  grandson  of  sir  George  Stanley,  K.G.,  of  Cross  hall,  knight.  The 
father  of  Henry  Stanley  was  second  brother  of  Thomas,  second  earl  of 
Derby,  K.G.,  and  Henry  the  third  earl,  in  his  will  dated  28th  August, 
1572,  bequeaths  a  legacy  of  40I.  also  a  piece  of  plate  to  his  "  cousin 
Henry  Stanley."  Eor  a  notice  of  the  deceased  see  Stanley  Papers,  pt. 
ii.  p.  96  Note.  His  will  is  abstracted  and  printed  in  Lane,  and  Cliesh. 
Wills,  2nd  portion,  p.  95.  It  was  dated  20th  July,  1598,  and  be  men- 
tions therein  that  he  was  "  sicke  in  bodye."  Three  days  after  this  date 
he  died,  and  on  the  day  of  his  death  was  buried,  although  his  public 
funeral  was  not  solemnized  until  nearly  three  weeks  afterwards,  as 
appears  -from  the  following  entry  in  the  Burial  JRegister  of  Ormskirk  : 
"1598  Auguste,  Henrie  Stanley  of  Bicarstaf  Esquire,  bur.  xxiii'^  of 
Julye,  whose  ffuneral  was  the  16*  Auguste  1598."  It  is  worthy  of 
notice  that  the  inventory  of  his  large  estate,  comprised  in  six  long 
vellum  sheets,  was  written  on  the  same  day  that  his  will  is  dated.  It 
includes  a  great  variety  of  chattel  property  at  Bickerstafte  (where  there 
was  "a Domestic  Chappell"  and  "a  Chambre  aboue  itt"),  at  Cross 
hall,  and  also  at  Aughton  hall.  {Worden  Evid.)  There  is  a  history  of 
the  Bickerstaff  chantry  in  Ormskirk  church,  in  the  Lane.  Chantries, 
vol.  i.  p.  101-2,  note  24.  Eor  the  will  of  Peter  Stanley,  esq.,  father-in- 
law  of  Henry  Stanley,  esq.,  see  Lane,  and  Chesh.  Wills,  2ud  portion, 
p.  282. 

The  following  narrative  of  the  proceedings  at  the  funeral  of  Henry 
Stanley,  esq.,  is  from  the  original  in  the  handwriting  of  William  ftar- 
ington  of  Worden,  esq.,  comptroller  of  the  households  of  Edward  and 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  31 

Heury,  third  and  fourth  earls  of  Derby,  and  the  kinsman  and  executor 
of  the  deceased : 

A  Remembrance  of  the  JBlackes  w"''  were  cutte  oute  and  dd.  tJie 
x""  of  Avgvste  1598,  to  the  Mowrners  againste  the  tyme  of 
the  Funerall  of  Henry  Stanley  of  BicJcerstaffe  eaqwyre,  viz. 

ffirste  to  my  Lo.  of  Derby  ^ iiij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

To  M""  Edwarde  Stanley  the  deceassed  Sone v  yards. 

To  his  brother  James  Stanley v  yards. 

To  M"^  Maneringe  ^    v  yards. 

To  M'' "W"' ffarington^o v  yards. 

To  M""  Eawfe  Worsley '^  iiij  yards. 

M"""  Stanley  the  Widow  12    iiij  yards. 

M"  Jane  Hesketh  ^^ iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

M''*  Anne  Stanley  the  elder  dowghter  '^^    ij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

M"  Dorothe  Stanley  her  sister  ^"^   ij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

s  William  tlie  sixth  earl,  who  had  succeeded  his  brother,  earl  Ferdiaaado,  iu  1594. 
He  died  iu  1642. 

3  He  was  brother  of  Katherine,  wife  of  the  eldest  son  of  the  deceased.  See  Stanley 
Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  162  Note. 

1"  He  was  the  son  of  su-  Henry  ffariugton  of  Worden,  knt.  His  wife  was  Ann, 
daughter  of  sir  Thomas  Talbot  of  Basball  knt.,  whose  mother,  Ann,  sister  of  sir  Per- 
cival  Hart  of  LuUingstone  castle,  in  the  county  of  Kent,  knt.,  married  sir  James 
Stanley  of  Cross  hall,  father  of  the  deceased.  Mr.  ffariugton  is  described  in  the  will 
of  the  deceased  as  his  "  lovinge  ueviewe."  See  his  Life,  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  lutrod. 
and  Note  of  sir  Thomas  Talbot,  ihkl.  p.  xxviii.  note. 

'1  A  friend  and  an  executor  of  the  deceased. 

12  She  was  Margaret,  sole  child  of  Peter  Stanley  of  Moore  hall  and  Bickerstaffe,  esq., 
by  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heiress  of  James  Scarisbrick  of  Bickerstaffe, 
esq.  "  M"  Eliz"'  Stanley,"  her  mother,  was  buried  at  Ormskirk,  "  Aprill  xii.  156 1  " 
{Register  BooJc),  and  her  father,  "Peeter  Stanley  of  Bycarstaf  "  was  "  buryed  in  hys 
Chancell  July  24,  1592."  {Ihid.)  Then-  daughter,  "M"  Margaret  Stanley  of  Bicar- 
staff,  Vid.  was  bur.  in  her  owne  Chappell  [at  Ormskirk],  Nou"^  3,  161 3."  {Ibid.)  She 
inherited  Bickerstaffe  and  other  large  estates  in  the  neighbovu-hood  from  her  mother, 
and  was  the  joint  residuary  legatee  of  her  father. 

13  Daughter  of  Robert  Hesketh  of  Rufford,  esq.,  and  of  his  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of 
sir  George  Stanley  of  Cross  hall,  knt.,  brother  of  the  deceased  Henry  Stanley. 

"  These  ladies,  who  were  sisters  in  half-blood,  and  daughters  of  the  deceased,  do 
not  occur  in  the  pedigi*ee  of  the  family.    (Baines's  Lane.  vol.  iv.  p.  n.)     They  were 


32  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

M"  Katter.  Stanley  '^  iiij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

Sum  —  xlv  yards  and  a  halfe  at  xxij*  the 

yard  amownts  A-nto  the  some  of  P'  xij*^ 

To  M''  Eohert  Hesketh  ^^^ iiij  yards. 

To  M''  Edwarde  Scaresbryke  ^'^    iiij  yards. 

To  M''  Bartholomew  Hesketh  ^^  iiij  yards. 

To  M'' Gabriell  Hesketh  i'^  iiij  yards. 

To  M""  Edwarde  Langtrye"'' iiij  yards. 

legatees  of  their  father's  -vvill  in  1598,  but  not  by  name.  They  are  recorded  in  the 
following  extracts  from  the  OrmskLrk  Register  Books,  for  which  I  am  indebted  to  my 
worthy  friend  Mr.  James  Dixon  : 

"Anne  Stanley,  bap.  December  21,  1561.     Anne  Stanley,  virgo  et  generosa,  bur. 

in  her  father's  Cliancell,  July  28,  162 1." 
"Doretha  Stanley,  fil.  Henrie,  esq.,  bap.  Julie  21,  1587.       Dorithie  Stanley, 
Virg.,  bm*.  Julie  xxii.  1614." 

1"  The  second  daugliter  of  sir  Randal  Maiuwaring  of  Peover,  knt.,  and  the  fu'st 
wife  of  Edward  Stanley  (afterwards  created  a  baronet),  eldest  son  of  the  deceased. 

IS  He  was  son  and  heir  of  sir  Thomas  Hesketh  of  Eufford,  knt.,  and  married  Mary, 
daughter  of  sir  George  Stanley  of  Cross  hall,  knt.,  and  niece  of  the  deceased.  Henry 
Stanley  of  the  Crosse,  esq.,  was  named  one  of  the  executors  of  su*  Thomas  Hesketh's 
will  in  1588.     {^Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  125  Note.) 

'7  Grandson  of  Thomas  Searisbrick  of  Scarisbrick,  esq.,  by  his  wife,  EUzabeth,  na- 
tural daughter  of  Thomas  second  earl  of  Derby.  {Stanlei/  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  105  Note.) 
He  had  been  gentleman  usher  to  Edward  third  earl  of  Derby,  1572. 

'^  See  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  124  Note. 

'9  Sou  and  hen-  of  the  preceding,  and  the  husband  of  Jane  Stanley,  daughter  of  the 
deceased. 

20  Nephew  of  the  deceased  and  son  and  heir  of  Gilbert  Langtrye  of  Langtrye,  esq., 
and  of  his  wife,  Ellen,  daughter  of  su-  James  Stanley  of  Cross  hall,  knt.  See  Stanley 
Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  209.  The  family  appeared  at  the  Lancashire  visitation,  1567,  but 
not  afterwards.  Edward  Langtree,  esq.,  died  in  the  year  1620,  and  was  probably 
succeeded  by  his  son,  Thomas  Langtree  of  Langtree,  esq.,  who  on  the  30th  April 
1628  couTcyed  the  half  of  the  manor  of  Langtree,  &c.,  to  sir  Ferdinando  Fairfax  of 
Denton  co.  York,  knt.,  Robert  Rockley  of  Rockley  co.  York,  esq.,  WilHam  ffariugton 
of  Worden  co.  Lane,  esq.,  Henry  Fairfax,  rector  of  Ashton-under-Lyne,  clerk, 
Thomas  Worthington  of  Worthington,  gent.,  and  Peter  Anderton  of  Anderton, 
gent.,  as  trustees  of  the  half  of  the  manors  of  Langtree,  Standish,  Coi^pxill  and  Wor- 
thington to  the  use  of  himself  for  life,  afterwards  to  his  heirs  male,  and  failing 
issue,  to  his  right  heirs  for  eyer.  His  estates  were  sequestered  in  June  1653  by  the 
Commonwealth,  and  the  owner  and  his  family  apparently  ruined.  {Lane.  MSS., 
vol.  xii.) 


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To  M'  Edwarde  Svtton^i iiij  yards. 

To  M'  Hesketh  of  Blackemore  22 iiij  yards. 

To  M'  Edwarde  Stanley  of  tlie  More  Halle -^    ...  iiij  yards. 

To  W  Bartholomew  Hesketh  his  wiff"    iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

To  M^*  Eushetou  the  widdow  -*  iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

To  M"^^  Margaret  ffarington  the  widdow  ^^ iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

To  Gefferey  Eusheton iiij  yards. 

To  his  sister  Anne  Eusheton  iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

Sum  —  1"^  yards  at  xvj*  the  yard  amovnts 

vnto  the  some  of  xl'' 

To  M''  Eic.  Aughton iiij  yards. 

21  William  Sutton,  esq.,  man-iecl  Margaret,  daugbter  of  Thomas  Stanley,  second 
baron  Monteagle,  and  Alice  and  Margaret  Suttou,  sisters,  were  legatees  of  Peter 
Stanley,  esq.,  in  1589.     Mrs.  Sutton  married,  secondly,  John  Talbot,  esq. 

"  Thomas,  son  of  sir  Thomas  Hesketh  of  Rufford,  had  lands  at  Blackmore,  in 
Maudesley,  in  the  parish  of  Croston,  under  his  father's  will,  20th  June  1588. 
{Lane,  and  Chesh.  Wills.)  ' 

^  Moor  hall,  in  Aughton,  near  Ormskirk,  is  just  on  the  border  of  the  to-wnship  of 
Bickerstaffe.  (Raines's  Lane.  vol.  iv.  p.  228.)  He  was  the  son  of  Peter  Stanley,  esq., 
by  his  second  wife,  Ciceley  Ireland,  and  half  brother  of  Margaret,  wife  of  the  deceased. 
There  is  an  ancient  stone  tablet  over  the  entrance  to  Moor  hall,  on  which  the  follow- 
ing record  is  inscribed : 

"  Petee  Stanley  EsqriE 

AKD  CeCELET  HTS  WiF. 

1566." 

2*  She  was  Ann,  sister  of  the  deceased,  daughter  of  sir  James  Stanley  of  Cross  hall, 
and  the  third  wife  and  now  widow  of  captain  Ralph  Rushton  of  Pontalgh.  Her  life 
was  almost  as  chequered  as  that  of  her  worthless  husband,  who  was  a  type  of  a  some- 
what large  class,  notwithstanding  all  the  glowing  eulogies  and  poetical  embellishments 
which  have  been  lavished  upon  chivalry.  This  ill-used  lady,  having  survived  all  her 
children,  was  living  in  Ormskirk,  17th  March  1611-12,  and  was  then  aged  80  years, 
and  in  the  full  possession  of  her  memory  and  other  faculties.  {Lane.  MSS.)  G-eof- 
frey  and  Ann  Rushton  were  not  her  children,  but  probably  were  the  children  of  her 
husband's  cousin,  John  Rushton  of  Duukenhalgh,  esq.,  who  married  Alice,  daughter 
of  sir  James  Stanley  of  Cross  hall,  and  whose  gi-andmother,  Ann,  wife  of  Richard 
Rushton  esq.,  was  a  Talbot  of  Samlesbiuy.    {Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xii.) 

^  She  was  the  widow  of  Henry  ffarington,  gent.,  second  son  of  William  ffarington, 
esq.,  the  nephew  (by  marriage)  of  the  deceased,  and  daughter  and  heiress  of  Edward 
Browstcr  of  Macclesfield,  esq.     Her  husband  died  a  young  man. 


34 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


To  M""  TV""  Stanley  brother  of  M'  Stanley  of  the 

More  Halle    iiij  yards. 

M"'*  Aughton  iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

ffor  ix  Ly very  Cottes    xiij  yards  aud  a  halfe. 

It.  for  a  Gro^^^le  to  one  of  the  Watiug  women  ...    iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 
Sum  —  xxviij  yards  aud  a  halfe  at  xj^  vj'* 

the  yarde  aniownts  vnto  xvj''  vij^  ix*^ 

It.  for  xi  Lyverey  cottes  more  coteyning  xvi  yards 
and  three  qvart'-^s  at  x^  the  yard  amownteth 

vnto  the  some  of  viij"  vij*  vi'' 

Suni  —  viij'^  vij'  vj'* 

Sum  totall  —  Cxiiij^i  xvjs  iij<i 

It.  rec.  also  of  Blacke  fryse  for  to  make  pore 
mens  gownes  of,  xxx''^  yards  at  xvij*^  the 

yarde  xlij=  vi** 

Sum  ...  xlij^  vj*^ 

A  note  lykewise  of  other  Clothe  as  yet  to  be  pvided  for  for 
the  licke  vse,  viz.  at  xvj^  the  yarde. 

ffirste  for  M"  Anne  ffarington,  wife  of  the  said 

"W"*  ffarington   iij  yards  and  a  halfe 

and  halfe  a  quarter. 

ffor  M"  Langtrye iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

ffor  M'*  Sutton iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

ffor  M""*  Stanley  of  the  More  Halle iij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

ffor  M"  Alice  Svtton    ij  yards  and  a  halfe. 

Sum  —  xvi  yards  and  a  half  and  half 

a  quarf     xiij"  j* 

Sum  . . .  xiij^  j^ 

It.  ffor  a  Gowne  to  a  wating  Made    iij  yards  and  a  halfe 

at  xj*  vj*^  the  yarde. 
Sum  —  iij  yards  and  a  halfe 

Sum xl^  iij** 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  ^S 

It.  for  a  fote  cloth  to  the  sayd  M''  Edwarde  Stan- 
ley the  ChiefFe  Mowrner 

It.  xvj  yai'des  of  Blacke  cotton  for  covering  of 

the  Hearse,  at  x*^  the  yarde  xiiij'  iiij"^ 

Sum  . . .  xiiij^  iiij'^ 

Sum  TOTAiiL  IS  Cxxxij^i  xviij^  iiij"^ 
wherof  payd  the  x*^  Avgvste  1598, 
in  parte  of  payment  the  some  of  1'^ 
Memd.  that  there  is  owing  also  vnto  the  sayd 
Roger  Langton  for  sertaiue  stuiFe  solde  vnto 
my  Cossin  Edward  Stanley,  as  appereth  by 
a  Bylle  of  psells,  the  some  of iij"  ix* 

The  names  of  the  S'vantes  of  the  sayd  Henry  Stanley  vnto 
whom  mowrnyng  cottes  were  giuen  againste  the  ffunerall 
of  the  sayd  M''  Stanley,  viz. 

Robert  Leadebeatter  Adam  Chadwicke 

Fetter  Charlies  T°  Cobone 

Rodger  Wallworth  Phillippe  Holme 

Rye.  Wilkinson  Jhon  ffogg 

James  Chadwicke  T"  Hunter 

T°  Waring  Henry  Lathom 

Fetter  Leadbeatter  Jhon  Lyon 

T°  Seffeton  Edwarde  Soinre 

G-abryell  Mason  Symon  Smyth 

Jhou  Davisst  W"'  Wadington  B.] 


MRS.  MARGARET  RADCLIFF,   1599. 
Funeral  Certificates,  I.  16.     60.  Coll.  Arm. 

RS.  Margrett  RadclifF  one  of  the  Maides  of  honor  to  her 
Ma^ie  daughtor  to  S"^  John  Radcliffe  knight  of  Wordsall  in 
the  Countie  of  Lancastr:  departed  this  mortall  Lyffe  at  Richmond, 
in  the  Countie  of  Surrey  (the  Court  beinge  then  theire)  the  x*^  of 


M 


j6  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

November  1599  whose  ffunerall  was  worshipfully  solempnised  at 
the  parishe  church  of  S*  Margaretts  in  Westminster  the  22  daye 
of  the  same  moncth.  The  pennon  borne  by  M''  Barton  of  Smyth- 
ells,  M"  Anne  Hussell  chife  morner,  beinge  ledd  by  S""  John  Rad- 
cliffe  Knight,  Brother  to  the  defunct.  And  the  assistantes  were 
the  Lady  Walsingha,  M^^  Radcliffe  M^^  flfittou,  M^^  Carey,  M" 
Aunslowe,  and  M''^  wyngfeld  Mr.  Clareneieulx  and  Rouge  Dragon 
attending  at  the  said  ffunerall  her  ma^i®^  will  and  pleasure  was, 
that  this  gentilwoman  should  be  Buried  as  a  lady.  The  whiehe 
was  accomplished  in  manner  and  forme  aforsaid  the  day  and  yere 
aboue  written. 

WiLL^^  Caaiden  Clarenceux 
W*^  Smith,  Rouge  Dragon. 

[Margaret  Radcliffe,  eldest  daughter  of  sir  John  Radcliffe  of  Ordsall, 
knt.,  M.P.,  (buried  in  the  choir  of  Manchester  collegiate  church  on  the 
nth  Februaiy  1589-90,  aged  53)  was  baptised  at  Manchester  on  the 
6th  March  1573-4.  She  had  by  her  father's  will  a  share  in  lands  in 
Lincolnshire,  Derbyshire  and  Rochdale,  during  her  life,  and  a  legacy  of 
one  thousand  marks.  {Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  172  Note.)  She  was 
the  eldest  daughter  of  her  parents,  and  seems  to  have  been  introduced 
at  court,  at  an  early  period  of  her  life,  probably  through  the  great 
interest  of  the  Derby  family,  with  whose  household  her  father  had 
been  connected.  It  is  recorded  that  at  the  court  "  she  became  the 
favourite  maid  of  honour  to  queen  Elizabeth  "  {Lane.  JISS.  vol.  xii. 
p.  198),  a  statement  corroborated  by  the  text,  and  probably  founded 
upon  it.  She  is  also  recorded  to  have  "  died  of  grief  for  the  loss  of 
her  brothers"  (ihid.),  her  second  brother,  William  (baptised  at  Man- 
chester on  the  28th  June  1577),  having  been  killed,  iu  1598,  at 
Blackwater  in  Ireland,  at  the  early  age  of  20,  whilst  fighting  against 
Hugh  earl  of  Tyrone  ;  and  lier  elder  brother,  sir  Alexander  (baptised  at 
Manchester  on  the  28th  January  157 1-2),  having  been  also  slain  in  Ire- 
land, at  the  age  of  27,  in  1599.  (Ibid.)  She  had  five  brothers,  all 
of  whom  were  distinguished  by  tlieir  military  bravery  ;  and  whilst  it  is 
recorded  that  three  of  them  died  in  battle,  the  probability  is  that  the 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


37 


otlier  two,  who  were  twins,  also  fell  in  the  same  field.  There  is  nothing 
surprising  in  the  fact  that  the  queen,  always  sparing  of  her  honours, 
should  have  commanded  the  sister  of  these  brave  and  gallant  soldiers 
to  be  buried  according  to  her  birth  "  as  a  lady."  The  text  can  scarcely 
be  meant  to  imply  that  the  queen  had  conferred  rank  or  title  upon  her. 
Mrs.  Anne  Eussell  and  the  other  ladies  styled  "Mistress"  were 
maids  of  honour,  or  young  ladies  of  the  court.  The  only  relatives  pre- 
sent at  the  funeral  were  sir  John  Eadclifte  and  Mr.  Barton  of  Smithills, 
although  the  mother  of  the  deceased  long  survived  the  death  of  her 
daughter.  There  is  a  pedigree  of  the  Eadcliffes  of  Ordsall,  com- 
mencing with  Eobert  Eadcliffe  of  Ordsall,  sheriff  of  Lancashire  14 
Edw.  III.,  and  brought  down  to  sir  William  Eadcliffe,  living  5  Edw.  VI., 
in  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xii.  And  a  very  elaborate  genealogical  history  of  | 
the  same  great  house,  deduced  by  William  Eadcliffe,  esq.,  rouge  croix,  \ 
in  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xiii.    i?.] 


KATHEllINE  BRETARGH,  1601. 

Lansdowne  MS.  879,  Jb.  7. 

KATHERINE  late  wief  of  Willin  Bretterghe  of  Brettersholt 
in  the  Countie  of  Lancaster  Gentleman  deceassed  the  last 
daie  of  Maye  Anno  Dni  1601. 

The  said  Katherine  was  daughter  of  John  Bruyn  of  Bruyn  Sta- 
pleforde  in  the  County  of  Chester  Esqui"^  who  hath  issue  by  the 
said  Willin  one  onelie  daughter  named  Anne.  The  said  defunct 
in  respecte  of  the  Faraylie  wherof  shee  is  discended  did  beare  in 
one  four  seuerall  Coates  of  Armes  in  such  sorte  as  the  same  is 
above  marshalled. 

The  firste  per  le  nosme  de  Bruyn 
The  Soconde  per  le  nosme  de  Praers 
The  Thirdd  per  le  nosme  de  Greenewaye 
The  fourthe  per  le  nosme  de  Dedwoode. 


38  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

The  Bretterghs  of  Brettergh-holt  recoi-Jcd  a  pedigree  at  the  Visita- 
tion of  Lancashire  iu  1664-5.  The  above-named  William  Brettergh  died 
about  the  year  16 16.  He  was  son  of  AVilliam  Brettergh  of  Bret- 
terghsholt  (who  was  living  iu  1596),  by  Maude,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Chisenhall  of  Chisenhall,  co.  Lane.  Katherine  the  defunct  was  the 
first  wife  of  "William,  and  had  issue  by  him  an  only  child,  Anne,  who 
married  Gilbert  Gerard  of  Crew  Wood,  co.  Chester.  The  said  William 
married,  seconcITy^  Anne,  daughter  of  William  Hyde  of  Urmstone,  co. 
Lane,  esq.,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  Nathaniel  Brettergh  of  Bretterghs- 
holt,  who  died  in  1659,  having  married  Katherine,  daughter  of  Edward 
Smith  of  Knowsley,  co.  Lane,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  James,  eldest 
son,  aged  38  in  1664;  and  w^ho  married  Deborah,  daughter  of  John 
Bushell  of  Mickledale,  in  Cheshire  ;  William,  second  son  of  Nathaniel, 
who  married  Anne  Gleve  of  Warrington,  co.  Lane. ;  and  three  daugh- 
ters, I.  Anne,  wife  of  Christopher  Powell ;  2.  Dorothy,  wife  of  Nathan 
Lowe;  3.  Katherine.  William  Bretterghe,  by  his  second  wife  (Ann 
Hyde),  had  also  two  daughters  ;  i.  Catherine,  wife  of  Edward  Stockley 
of  Prescot,  co.  Lane. ;  2.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  William  Hatton,  M.D. 
James  Brettergh  above  mentioned,  by  Deborah  Bushell  his  wife,  had 
issue,  I.  Jonathan,  aged  eight  in  1664;  2.  Edward;  and  six  daughters, 
viz. :  Anne,  Mary,  Deborah,  Elizabeth,  Catherine  and  Phoebe.  (Coll. 
Anns,  London.) 

[There  is  a  pedigree  of  the  family  in  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xii.,  com- 
mencing with  William  Brettergh,  who  lived  in  the  time  of  Edw.  I.,  and 
brought  down  to  Dugdale's  Visitation  0/  Lancashire.  The  lady,  whose 
death  is  here  recorded,  w^as  remarkable  for  her  piety  and  good  works, 
and  her  funeral  sermons  and  life  were  published.  The  former  with  the 
titles  :  "  Death's  Advantages  Little  Begarded,''  and  "  The  Soiiles  Solace 
against  Sorrow,  preached  in  two  funerall  Sermons  at  Childw-all  in  Lan- 
cashire, at  the  buriall  of  Mistris  Katherin  Brettergh,  the  third  of  June 
1 60 1.  The  one  by  William  Harrison,  one  of  the  Preachers  appointed 
by  Her  Maiestie  for  the  Countie  Palatine  of  Lancaster ;  the  other  by 
William  Leygh,  Bachelor  of  Diuinity  and  Pastor  of  Standish.  Where- 
unto  is  annexed.  The  Christian  Life  and  godly  death  of  the  said  Gentle- 
woman. The  second  edition,  corrected  and  amended."  London,  i2mo, 
16 1 2.  The  first  sermon  Avas  preached  from  Isaiah  Ivii.  i,  and  there  is 
"  An  Epistle  to  the  Christian  Reader,"  by  IMr.  Harrison,  pp.  4.     The 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


39 


sermon  extends  to  pp.  84.  The  second  sermon  was  preached  from 
Isaiah  Ivii.  2,  and  there  is  an  epistle  "  To  the  Eeverend  man  of  Grod 
and  faithful  Preacher,  Mr.  William  Leygh,  B.D.  and  Pastor  of  Stan- 
dish  in  Lancashire,  [from]  AVilliam  Brettergh,  [who]  wisheth  eucrease 
of  all  good  graces  for  the  gathering  of  Gods  saints  and  building  vp 
of  his  Church,  and  for  his  owne  euerlasting  salvation  in  Jesus  Christ. 
Dated  London,  20  November  1601."  It  appears  that  Mr.  Brettergh, 
after  much  entreaty,  obtained  a  copy  of  the  sermon  from  Mr.  Leigh, 
and  published  it  without  his  authority,  "rather  than  venture  upon 
earthly  replies,  and  so  hazard  the  want  of  so  heavenly  a  solace  for 
Grod's  children."  The  sermon  extends  to  pp.  77,  and  contains  many 
eloquent  and  touching  passages,  and  is  a  fine  specimen  of  pulpit 
oratory  of  the  puritan  school  of  theology.  The  life  is  entitled  "  A 
JSrief  Discourse  of  the  Christian  Life  and  Death  of  Mistris  Katherin 
Brettergh,  late  wife  of  Master  William  Brettergh  of  Bretterghoult,  in 
the  Countie  of  Lancaster,  Gentleman,  who  departed  this  world  the  last 
of  May  1 60 1.  Witb  the  manner  of  a  bitter  conflict  she  had  with  Satan, 
and  blessed  conquest  by  Christ,  before  her  death,  to  the  great  glorie  of 
Grod,  and  comfort  of  all  Beholders.  Micah  7.  8  ;  Psalm  37.  37.  i2mo, 
London,  Imprinted  by  Pelix  Kyngston."  The  life  is  preceded  by  "An 
Epistle  to  the  Christian  Eeader ;"  also,  "  A  Postscript  to  Papists,"  and 
three  copies  of  elegiac  verses  on  her  death,  as  well  as  the  following 
lines  by  W.  P. : 

/  Pura,  Christo  quam  piirgata, 
K  t1  p  •■        ^ita,  Christo  prtBparata, 
Morte,  Christo  dedicata, 

^Ccelis,  Christo  coniugata. 

The  life  extends  to  pp.  38.  The  relatives  and  friends  who  visited  her 
dvu'iug  her  sickness  were  her  brother,  the  famous  John  Bruen  of  Bruen 
Stapleford,  esq.,  William  Pox  of  Rhodes,  near  Manchester,  William 
and  John  Brettergh,  William  Woodward  of  Shevington,  John  Holland, 
Mrs.  Maud  Brettergh,  Mrs.  Scholastica  Fox,  Mr.  Edward  Aspinwall 
(who  wrote  verses  on  her  death),  Elizabeth  Challoner,  Eichard  Orme, 
John  Wrightington,  esq.,  Eaphe  Heaton,  and  Mr.  Harrison  the  preacher. 
She  was  married  when  about  20  years  old  tolIrTlSrettergh^  a  young 
man  of  ancient  family,  and  died  of  a  fever  about  two  years  afterwards, 
having  had  issue  only  one  daughter,  Anna  Brettergh.     Her  biographer 


40  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

informs  us  that  "  she  came  from  the  habitation  of  Abraham  to  dwell 
in  Sodome  amidst  the  tents  of  Kedar,  that  is  to  say,  among  inhumane 
bands  of  brutish  Papists,  induring  many  temporal  grievances  from  them, 
yet  her  knowledge,  patience,  mild  inclination  and  constancie  for  the 
truth  was  such  as  that  her  husband  was  farther  buildcd  up  in  Religion 
by  her  means,  and  his  face  dailie  more  and  more  hardened  against  the 
diuell  and  all  his  plaguie  agents,  the  Popish  Becusants,  Church  Papists, 
prophane  Atheists  and  carnall  Protestants,  which  swarmed  together  like 
Hornets  in  those  parts,"  —  near  Liverpool.  The  biographer  concludes 
his  well- written  life  by  recording  that  "  her  Funerall  was  accomplished 
at  Childwall  Church  on  "Wednesday  following  [she  died  on  Whitsun- 
day, 31st  May],  being  the  third  of  June  1601  ;"  and  he  adds:  "Now 
for  conclusion,  seeing  this  blessed  Grentlewoman  is  taken  from  among 
vs,  and  received  into  the  holy  habitations  of  the  heauenlie  Jerusalem, 
there  to  remaine  in  ioy,  glory  and  blessedness  for  euermore,  let  vs 
lament  for  our  losse,  but  reioyce  for  her  gaine,  and  let  vs  pray,  that  in 
heart  wee  could  as  willinglie  wish  to  be  with  her  as  she  is  now  vnwil- 
ling  to  be  with  us.  Solomon  saith  :  The  memorie  of  the  iust  shall  be 
blessed,  but  the  name  of  the  wicked  shall  ]iot.    Prov.  x.  7." 

It  is  not  stated  by  whom  the  life  was  written,  but  there  is  internal 
evidence  to  lead  to  the  conclusion  that  the  author  was  the  Eev.  William 
Hiude,  B.D.,  who  wrote  the  interesting  life  of  John  Bruen  of  Bruen 
Stapleford,  esq.  His  wife  was  the  sister  of  Mrs.  Biuen,  but  neither  of 
them  are  named  in  Mrs.  Brettergh's  life.    P.'] 


SIR  EDWARD  STANLEY,  1604. 
Lansdowne  MS.  S'jg,  fo.  31. 

SIR  Edward  Stanley  Knight  dyed  at  Latliom  in  Lancashire  on 
the  vii*^  of  August  1 604  and  lyeth  buryed  in  Ormes  church 
within  the  said  County. 

He  was  third  sonne  to  Edward  Earl  of  Darby,  Lord  Stanley, 
Strange,  Lord  of  Man,  and  Knight  of  the  Garter  &c.  he  dyed  vpon 
the  day  aforesaid  and  was  never  married. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  41 

He  was  third  son  of  Edward  third  earl  of  Derby,  K.Gr.,  by  Dorothy 
his  first  wife,  dai\ghter  of  Thomas  Howard  duke  of  Norfolk ;  and  was 
of  Eynsham,  co.  Oxford.     K. 

["September  4.  1604.  Sere  Edward  Stanley  bur.  in  my  Lords 
Cbaple."  (Ormskirk  Begister  of  Bm-ials.)  In  the  elaborate  pedigree 
of  the  house  of  Stanley  in  Baines's  Sist.  of  Lane.  vol.  iv.  he  is  errone- 
ously said  to  have  died  in  1590.    i2.] 


EDWARD  NORRES,  1606. 

Sari.  MS.  2041,  Book  of  Funerals  in  Cheshire,  Lancashire, 
and  North  Wales,  ly  Eichard  St.  George,  Norroy, 

EDWARD  Norres  of  Speake  in  the  Countie  of  Lanckester 
Esqre  dyed  one  the  one  and  twenteth  of  May  1606  and  lyeth 
interred  in  the  parishe  church  of  Childwall  in  the  said  Countie. 

He  married  Margerett  one  of  the  daughters  and  heyres  of  Robt. 
Smalwood  of  the  City  of  Westminster  Esq'  they  have  yssue  S' 
William  Norres^  Knight  of  the  honorable  order  of  the  Bathe,  their 
Sonne  and  heire ;  who  hath  marled  Dame  Elinor  sole  daughter  to 
William  Molyneux  Esq"^,  sonne  and  heire  of  S'  Richard  Molyneux 
of  Sefton  in  the  said  Countie  of  Lane.  Knight. 

The  said  S'  William  Norres  Knight  and  Dame  Elinor  have  yssue 
Edward  Norres  Esq'  sonne  and  heire  apparent,  William  Norres 
second  sonne,  Allen  Norres  third  sonne,  Thomas  Norres  fourth 
sonne,  Richard  Norres  fift  sonne,  Alexander  Norres  sixt  sonne, 
and  Henrie  seventh  sonne. 

Margaret  Norres  eldest  Daughter^e  of  the  said  S'  William  and 
Dame  Elinor,  Bridget  second  daughter,27  Elizabeth  third  daughter, 
and  Ann  fourth  Daughter. 

Edward  Norres  second  sonne  of  Edward  and  Margrett. 

Anne  eldest  daughter  to  the  said  Edward  and  Margrett,  first 

^  Second  daughter.  fOrmerodJ.        -'  Eldest  daughter.  {Ibid). 

G 


42  LANCASHIRE   FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

luarried  to  S""  Thomas  Butler  of  Bewsey  in  the  Couutie  Lane. 
Knight ;  the  have  no  yssue.  To  her  second  husband  slie  maried 
Phillip  Draycort,  sonne  and  heire  of  John  Dracort  of  Pensley^s  in 
the  Countie  Stafford  Esq"";  they  liave  yssue,  Edward  Dracort, 
IMargeret  and  Ann  Dracorte. 

Marye  second  daughter  of  Edward  and  Margerett  maried  Tho- 
mas Clifton  of  Westbye  in  the  Countie  Lane.  Esq^';  they  have 
yssuCj  Cutberd  Clifton  their  sonne  and  heire,  who  hath  maried 
Ann  daughter  of  Christopher  Tylsley  of  Morley  in  the  Countie 
Lane.  Esq'' ;  they  have  yssue  Tho,  Clifton. 

Margrett  third  daughter  of  Edward  and  Margerett,  maried  Edw. 
Tarbock  sonne  and  heire  apparent  of  Edw.  Tarbock  of  Tarbock  in 
the  Couutie  of  Lane.  Esq^';  they  have  yssue  Edw.  Tarbock  their 
sonne  and  heire,  George  second  sonne,  Will'^  third  sonne,  Elionor 
eldest  daughter,  and  Margrett  Tarbock  second  daughter. 

Emilia  fourth  daughter  of  Edw.  and  Margrett,  maried  Willfh 
Bluudell  of  Crosbie  in  the  countie  of  Lane.  Esq'';  they  have  yssue 
Nichol,  Ann  and  Margrett  Blundell. 

Winifred  fift  daughter,  maried  Ric.  Bauester  of  Wem  in  the 
Couutie  of  Salop  Esq"^;  they  had  yssue  but  all  died  younge. 

Martha^s  sixt  Daughter,  first  maried  to  Thurstan  Anderton,  heire 
vnto  his  brother  James  Anderton  of  Lostoek  in  the  Countie  of 
Lane.  Esq'";  they  had  yssue  but  none  uowe  livinge.  To  her  second 
husband,  she  maried  S""  Henry  Bunbery  of  Stanney  in  the  Countie 
of  Chester  Knight ;  they  have  yssue  John,  Tho.  Anne  and  Elioner 
Bunbery. 

Perpetua  seventh^"  daughter  of  Edw.  and  Mar.  maried  to  Tho. 
Westbie,  Brother  and  heire  to  Jo.  Westbie  of  Mowbrick  in  the 
Countie  of  Lane.  Esq'^. 

^  Paynsley. 

^  In  the  pedigree  of  the  family  (Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xii.)  she  is  called  "Agatha." 
*'  In  the  pedigree  in  the  Visitation  of  the  county  of  Lancaster,  1664,  and  also 
in  Ormerod's  Memoir,  she  is  recorded  as  being  the  eldest  daughter. 


LANCASHIRE   FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  at. 

In  the  Topographer  and  Genealogist,  vol.  ii.  jjp.  357-383,  is  an  ac- 
count and  copy  of  a  "  Genealogical  declaration  respecting  the  Family  of 
Norres,  written  by  Sir  "William  Norres  of  Speke,  co.  Lancaster,  in  the 
year  1 563  ;  accompanied  by  an  abstract  of  ancient  charters."  The  docu- 
ment here  alluded  to,  which  is  copied  from  the  Harl.  MSS.  1997,  appears 
to  have  escaped  the  notice  of  Mr.  Baines,  sen.,  the  historian  of  Lanca- 
shire. It  appears,  hoAvever,  that  much  reliance  cannot  be  placed  iipon  sir 
"William's  statements  concerning  his  ancestors.  The  abstracts  from 
charters  extend  from  the  reign  of  Henry  III.  to  that  of  Elizabeth. 

In  the  Visitation  of  co.  Lane,  anno  1567,  the  pedigree  of  Norres  of 
Speke  was  registered  but  not  certified  by  sir  William,  as  stated  in  Top. 
and  Gen.  He  was  father  of  Edward  Speke,  the  subject  of  this  funeral 
certificate.  The  pedigree  is  extensively  given  in  Baines,  vol.  iii.  p.  754, 
and  Gregson,  p.  204.  The  descendants  of  Edward  have  never  recorded 
their  pedigree  in  Coll.  Arms.  That  entered  by  Mr.  Lodge  in  1808,  of 
Norres  of  Davyhulme  near  Manchester,  is  a  junior  branch,  and  they 
bore  three  bezants  on  the  fess  in  their  arms ;  the  family  being  now 
represented  by  Eobert  H.  Norres,  esq.,  of  Davyhulme  hall.     K. 

[A  Memoir  of  the  Lancashire  house  of  Le  Noreis  or  Norres  and  its 
Speke  branch  in  particular,  with  notices  of  its  connexion  with  military 
transactions  at  Elodden,  Edinburgh  and  Musselburgh,  was  read  in 
April  1850,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Historic  Society  of  Lancashire  and 
Cheshire,  and  having  been  printed  in  the  second  volume  of  their  pro- 
ceedings, was  afterwards  privately  printed,  with  additions  by  the  author, 
George  Ormerod,  esq.,  D.C.L.,  P.E.S.,  F.S.A.,  of  Tyldesley  and  Sed- 
bury  park.  Liverpool,  Bvo,  1850,  pp.  55.  The  Table  of  Contents  is  as 
follows : 

Introductory  Remarks. 

I.  I.  Settlement  of  Le  Noreis  in  Blackrocl  iu  the  time  of  Richard  I. 

2.  Account  of  the  Blackrod  line  of  Le  Noreis. 

3.  Le  Noreis  or  Norrejs  of  Sutton  and  Daresbury,  from  whom  the  Speke  line  is 

deduced. 

4.  Examination  of  the  Evidence  illustrating  the  connection  of  the  Sutton  and 

Speke  line  of  Noires. 

5.  Norres  or  le  Noreis  of  Speke,  previous  to  their  connexion  with  Erneys  of 

Seftou  and  Speke. 

II.  I.  Descent  of  the  manor  of  Speke  from  Geruet  to  Norres  through  Molyueux  of 

Seftou  and  Erneys. 


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2.  Deduction  of  represcntatiou  in  blood,  as  derived  from  Gernet  by  Norres 
through  Molyneux  of  Crosby  and  Erneys. 

III.  Collateral  male  lines  of  Spake. 

1 .  Non-es  of  Park  Hall  in  Blackrod. 

2.  of  West  Derby  (second  line). 

3.  of  Fyficld  in  Berks. 

4.  of  West  Derby  (third  line). 

5.  of  Middleforth  and  Davyhulme. 

6.  of  Bolton. 

7.  a?/ff5  Robinson,  bishop  of  Bangor. 

8.  of  Orford,  and  the  lines  of  Norres  stated  to  hare  adopted  th3  local 

names  of  Halsncd,  Hardieshaw,  Eltonhead,  &c. 

9.  Norreys,  earl  of  Berkshire. 

IV.  Continuation  of  the  Speke  line  from  the  alliance  with  Erneys  to  the  determina- 

tion of  the  dii'ect  male  line. 

The  descents  previous  to  Henry  Norres,  the  husband  of  Clemence  Harrington. 

Henry  Norres  of  Speke  and  Blackrod,  and  examination  of  the  legend  which  con- 
founded him  with  an  imaginary  sir  Edward  Non-es. 

Services  of  Lancashii-e  and  Cheshire  knights  and  gentry  at  Flodden. 

Brasses  of  Henry  and  Clemence  Norres  at  Childwall  cliurch. 

Biographical  notice  of  sir  William  Norres,  and  notice  of  liis  connexion  with  the 
transactions  at  Edinburgh  and  Musselburgh,  and  the  death  of  his  son  at 
the  latter. 

Notice  of  Edward  Norres,  son  of  sir  William. 

ILLUSTRATIONS  OF  THE  PRECEDINa  MEMOIR.  . 

I.  Authorities  for  the  several  statements. 

II.  Records  relative  to  the  possession  of  Blackrod  by  Hugh  le  Norres. 

III.  Extracts  from  the  "  Declaration  "  of  sir  William  Norres,  relative  to  his  repre- 

sentation of  the  Blackrod  line  of  Norres. 

IV.  Descent  of  Le  Noreis  as  given  in  the  Visitation  of  1567. 

V.  Probable  origin  of  the  arms  of  Norres. 

VI.  Charter  of  Henry  le  Noi'eis,  recognizing  his  brothers,  who  are  considered 

identical  with  the  founders  of  the  Speke  line. 

VII.  Documents  relative  to  the  grant  of  the  Haselwal  interest  in  Speke  to  the 

Norres  family. 

VIII.  Lancashire  Deeds  witnessed  by  Allan,  Robert,  and  John  le  Noreis,  considered 

to  be  the  brothers  of  Henry  le  Norics  above  mentioned, 

IX.  Foi-mer  memorials  of  Norres  at  Childwall. 

X.  Notice  of  Discussions  on  (he  Wainscot  at  Speke. 


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45 


XI.  Extract  from  the  Speke  Pedigree  proving  the  presence  of  the  several  brothers 

of  the  Speke  family  at  Floddeu. 

XII.  Brasses  in  Childwall  church. 

XIII.  Autograph  Inscription  by  sir  WiUiam  Norres  in  the  books  brought  from 

Edinburgh  as  trophies. 

XIV.  Extract  from  Holinshed  relative  to  the  death  of  sir  William  Norres  in  the 

battle  of  Musselburgh. 

XV.  Notice  of  the  Banner  of  Boswell  taken  by  sur  William  Norres  at  Musselburgh. 

XVI.  Inscription  attached  to  the  carved  mantlepiece  in  the  great  parlour  at  Speke. 

XVII.  Notices  of  the  part  taken  by  Norres  of  Speke  and  other  Lancashire  branches 

of  that  house  in  the  war  between  king  Charles  I.  and  the  parliament. 
Plates  and  Pedigrees.     iZ.] 


SIR  ALEXANDER  BARLOWE,  1620. 
Funeral  Cerfif.  I.  22.     33^  Coll.  Arm. 

S^  Alexander  Barlowe  in  y«  County  of  Lancaster  knight,  de- 
parted this  lyfe  the  20  of  April!,  and  was  buried  in  y^  Col- 
legiatt  Churche  of  Manchester,  being  of  the  age  of  63  yeares 
when  he  dyed.  He  maried  Mary  2^  Da  of  S"^  Urion  Brerton  of 
Handford  in  y®  County  of  Chest,  knight,  and  by  her  had  issue  8 
sonnes  and  6  daughters,  viz*  Alexander  eldest  sonne  and  heire, 
who  together  with  his  father  was  knighted  at  ye  Coronacon  of 
King  James,  and  doth  succeede  his  father  in  all  his  possessions, 
Lands  and  tenements  and  hereditament  of  Barlowe  and  else- 
where ;  George  2^  sonne  of  the  defunct,  William  2^^  sonne,  Edward 
4.^^  sonne,  John  5  sonne,  Robert  6  sonne  dyed  an  infant,  Ed- 
mund 7  sonne,  and  Robert  8  sonne  now  living.  His  daughters 
were  Elizabeth,  first  da  dyed  an  infant,  Margret  2'^  da  maried  to 
S'^  John  Talbot  of  Salebury  in  Com.  Lancaster  knight,  flfraucys  3 
da,  Mary  4*^  da,  Jane  5  and  Catharine  6  daughter.  This  S""  Alex- 
ander Barlow  now  living  maried  first  Elizabeth  2^  da  of  Edward 
Lo.  Morley,  and  by  her  hath  issue  one  sonne  and  2  daught. 
Secondly  he  maried  Dorothy  y^^  da  of  S"^  Thomas  Greasley  of 
Draklow  in  y*  County  of  Derby,  and  by  her  hath  one  sonne.    This 


46  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

Certificat  was  taken  the  30  of  October  1620  by  Leonard  Smetlieley 
Deputy  for  y*  Office  of  Armes,  being  truely  given  by  S""  Alexander 
Barlow  and  testified  by  y®  subscription  of  his  name. 

From  the  pedigree  entered  at  the  Visitation  of  1664  it  appears  that 
he  was  the  son  of  Alexander  IBarlow  of  Barlow,  by  Elizabeth  daur  and 
coheir  of  George  Leigh,  brother  of  Thomas  Leigh  of  Higli  Leigh,  co. 
Cest.,  and  grandson  of  Ellis  Barlow  of  Bai-low,^^  by  Anne  daiir  of 
Gates  Keddish  of  Reddish,  co.  Lane.  The  only  issue  mentioned  of 
the  defunct  in  the  Visitation  are  sir  Alexander,  who  ob.  1642,  and 
Margaret  above  mentioned.  The  issue  of  sir  Alexander  the  sou,  by  his 
i^'  wife,  were  Alexandei*,  who  ob.  s.p.  about  1654,  having  marr*^  Fran- 
ces oldest  daur  of  William  Brereton  of  Ashley,  co.  Cest. ;  Catherine, 
wife  of  Henry  Norris  of  West  Derby ;  and  Dorothy,  wife  of  [James] 
Gossach^-  of  Gossach,  co.  Lane.  By  his  2*^  wife,  Dorothy  Gresley,  he 
had  Thomas  of  Barlow,  aged  46  in  1664,  who  marr'^  Winifred,  eldest 
daur  of  Anthony  Meynell  of  North  Kilvington,  co.  York,  esq.,  by 
whom,  Thomas,  Alexander,  Anthony  and  Mary.  His  daurs  by  the 
Baid  Dorothy  were  Anne,  a  nun  of  St.  Clare  ;  Mary,  Avife  of  Caryl  vis- 
count Molineux ;  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas  Vavasour  of  Weston, 
CO.  York,  esq.     K. 

[Sir  Alexander  Barlow  was  aged  twenty-six  27  Elizabeth  (1584)  ;  at 
the  death  of  his  father  received  knighthood  from  James  I.  at  White- 
hall in  1603  ;  was  contracted  in  the  face  of  the  Church,  at  Middleton 
in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  September  22,  1562,  to  Elizabeth,  daughter 
and  coheir  of  Ralph  Belfield  of  Clegg  hall,  near  Rochdale,  gent.,  but  the 
marriage  does  not  appear  to  have  been  consummated,  and  he  obtained 
a  divorce  from  the  consistory  court  of  Chester  on  the  21st  October 
1574.  (^Lanc.  MSS.,  vol.  xii..  Barlow;  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  211, 
note,  Chetham  series.)  He  married,  secondly,  Mary,  daughter  of  sir 
TJrian  Brereton  of  Honford,  in  the  county  of  Chester,  kut.,  by  Avhom 
he  had  issue.  His  will  is  dated  April  14th  16 17,  and  he  was  buried  by 
torch  light  in  the  Collegiate  church  of  Manchester  on  the  21st  April 
1620,  as  "  sir  Alexander  Barlow  the  elder  knt. ;"  dying,  as  he  expresses 
himself  in  his  will,  "  a  true  and  pfecte  recusante  Catholicke." 

^'  Ellis  Barlovrc  was  eldest  son  of  Roger  Barlow,  son  and  heir  of  sir  Alexander 
Barlowc,  who  commences  the  pedigree  at  the  Visitation  of  1597.  ^'  Gorsuch. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


47 


For  a  view  of  Barlow  hall,  a  pedigree  of  the  family,  and  much  inte- 
resting documentary  information,  see  Booker's  Ilistori/  of  CJiorlton 
Chapel,  Chetham  series,  vol.  xlii.  pp.  249  et  seq. ;  and  for  a  notice  of 
sir  Alex.  Barlow,  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  210,  note,  Chetham  series ; 
where  on  p.  212,  for  sir  William  read  JJrian  Brereton,  and  for  1624 
read  1620.    B.'] 


SIR  EDMUMD  TR AFFORD,  1620. 
Funeral  Certif.  I.  22.     53''  Coll.  Arm. 

SIR  Edmund  Trafford  of  Trafford  in  Com.  Lancast  knight, 
departed  this  life  the  19  of  May  1620,  and  was  buried  the 
28  of  the  same  month  in  the  Collegiatt  Churche  of  Manchester, 
when  he  had  lived  59  yeares.  He  first  maried  Margrett  da  and 
coheire  of  John  Bouth  of  Barton  in  ye  County  aforesaid  Esq.,  by 
whom  he  had  issue  one  daughter  and  three  sonnes  viz.  Edmund 
eldest  Sonne  disinherited,  John  2^  sonne,  Richard  3'!  sonne,  and 
Elizabeth  his  daughter. 

He  married  to  his  2^  wife  the  Lady  Mildred  da  of  Thomas  Cecill 
Earle  of  Excester,  by  whom  he  had  issue  Cecilia  a  daughter,  and 
Cecill  a  sonne,  knighted  in  his  fathers  lyfe  tyme,  whome  his  father 
made  heire  of  all  his  laud  and  sole  Executor,  who  now  doth  succeede 
him  in  y^  possession  and  occupation  of  aU  his  lands  demeasnes 
Parkes  and  priviledges  and  whatsoever  his  late  father  did  hold  given 
vnto  him  by  his  father  and  confirmed  vnto  him  by  his  eldest  brother 
Edmund  and  the  rest,  under  their  handes  and  scale,  he  paying 
unto  his  said  elder  brother  and  sister  Elizabeth  such  porcons  and 
annuities  as  is  agreed  vpon,  and  soe  to  continew  heire  and  suc- 
cessor to  his  father,  both  he  and  his  heires  to  be  "Trafford  of 
Trafford."  This  Certificat  was  taken  by  Leonard  Smetheley,  De- 
puty to  the  Oflfice  of  Armes  for  y«  county  of  Lancaster,  the  3 1  of 
October  1620,  and  testified  to  be  true  by  y®  subscription  of  the 
sayd  S'  Cecill  Trafford. 


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Sir  Edmund  Traflford  was  the  son  of  sir  Edmund  TrafFord  of  Trafford 
knt.  by  Elizabeth  his  second  wife,  daur.  of  sir  Ealph  Leicester  of 
Tofte,  CO.  Chester,  kn',  and  grandson  of  sir  Edmund  Trafford  of 
Trafford  knt.  by  Anne  dau'r  of  sir  Alexander  Eadclyffe  of  Ordsall 
ku',  as  appears  by  the  Visitations  of  co.  Lane.  1613  and  1664.  The 
children  of  the  deceased  by  his  first  wife  were  Elizabeth,  wife  of 
Richard  Fleetwood  of  Penwortham,  co.  Lane.  gent.  i.  Edmund,  who 
married  but  died  without  issue,  2.  John,  and  3.  Eichard;  both  died 
unmarried.  By  his  second  wife  he  had  issue  sir  Cecil  Trafford  knt., 
aged  65  in  1664,  who  marr*^  Penelope,  dau'r  of  sir  Humphrey  Daven- 
port of  Sutton,  CO.  Chester,  knt.,  lord  chief  baron  of  the  exchequer, 
by  whom  he  had  issue,  i.  Edmund,  aged  39  in  1664,  who  mar*^  Frances 
dau'  of  Philip  Dray  cote  of  Paynesley,  co.  Stafford,  esq.;  2.  Cecill ;  3. 
Humphrey;  4.  John  of  Croston,  co.  Lane,  aged  30  in  1664,  and  who 
mar"^  Anne  da'  and  coheir  of  Eichard  Ashton  of  Croston,  esq"^^  [by 
whom  Cecil  aged  2,  Ashton  who  died  young,  and  John,  ancestor  of 
the  present  baronet]  ;  5.  Henry,  ob.  unmar*^;  6.  William;  and  two 
daurs.  i.  Penelope  wife  of  John  Downes  of  "Wordley,  co.  Lane,  esq. ; 
2.  Mildred  wife  of  William  Massey  of  Puddington,  co.  Cest.,  esq""- 

From  sir  Cecil  Trafford,  who  mar*^  Penelope  Davenport,  a  pedigree 
was  I'ecorded  in  Coll.  Arms  in  1842  of  their  descendants,  one  of  whom, 
sir  Thomas  Joseph  Trafford,  baronet,  was  so  created  in  184T  ;  and  by 
royal  licence  in  the  same  year  took  the  surname  of  De  Trafford,  the 
ancient  patronymic  of  the  family.    K. 

[It  does  not  appear  to  be  known  why  Edmund,  the  eldest  son  of  sir 
Edmund  Trafford,  knt.,  was  disinherited.  He  was  married,  although  the 
name  of  his  wife  is  not  recorded,  and  in  the  family  pedigree  he  is  said  to 
have  had  no  issue.  The  large  estates  of  the  Booths  of  Barton  passed 
away  from  the  blood  and  lineage  of  that  great  house  on  or  before  the  death 
of  Edmund  Trafford  and  his  two  brothers  (maternal  grandsons  of  John 
Booth,  esq.),  and  were  confirmed  by  deed  to  Cecil  Trafford,  their  brother 
in  half  blood,  in  whose  collateral  descendants  they  are  still  vested.  For 
a  notice  of  sir  Edmund  Trafford,  knt.,  whose  funeral  certificate  is  here 
printed,  see  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  99,  note,  Chetham  series ;  and  for 
an  extensive  pedigree  of  the  family,  Baines's  History  of  Lancashire, 
vol.  iii,  p.  Ill ;  and  for  abtracts  of  the  evidences  of  the  Booths  and 
Traffords,  Lane.  MSS.  vol.  xxv.    H.] 


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SIR  THOMAS  IRELAND,  1625. 
Original  Funeral  Gertificates  of  the  North  in  Coll.  Arm.,  No.  4. 

SIR  Thomas  Ireland  of  Beusey  in  the  County  of  Lancaster  K* 
departed  this  mortall  life  at  Beusey  the  17  day  of  July  1625, 
interred  in  Warrington  Church  in  y«  sayde  County  in  Butlers 
chappell,  beiuge  then  his  own  chappell. 

The  sayd  defunct  marryed  Margaret  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Aston  of  Aston  in  the  county  of  Chester  K*  and  by  her  hadd  issue, 
Thomas  Ireland  sonne  and  heire  unto  the  defunct  being  then  of 
the  age  of  23  yeares  att  the  time  of  his  fathers  deathe  then  vn- 
marryed  since  upon  the  takinge  of  this  Certificate  marryed  vnto 
Margaret  daughter  vnto  Sir  Thomas  Standley  of  Auderley  K* 
defuncte,  by  whom  hee  had  issue,  Thomas  which  dyed  younge  and 
Margaret  now  of  y«  age  of  7  yeares  and  a  halfe  or  thereabouts. 

Robert  the  2^^  Sonne  vnto  the  defuncte  vnmarryed. 

Elizabeth  the  eldest  daughter  of  the  defuncte  marryed  William 
Banckes  of  Winstanley  Esq''  by  whom  she  had  issue  James 
Banckes  and  Thomas  Banckes  and  William  Bancks. 

Ellinor  the  1^^  daughter  vnto  the  defuncte  marryed  John 
Atherton  of  Atherton  Esq^^  by  whom  shee  had  George  and  John 
w*  others  since. 

Margaret  the  youngest  daughter  vnto  the  defuncte  marryed 
John  Jefferyes  of  Acton  in  the  County  of  Denby  Esq'^  by  whom  he 
hath  issue  Margaret  and  John. 

The  sayd  defuncte  marryed  afterwards  Suzane  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Cheek  K*  by  whom  hee  had  noe  issue. 

The  sayd  defuncte  marryed  afterwards  Margaret  daughter  vnto 
William  Lloyde  of  Halton  Esq'  and  widdowe  of  John  JefiPeryes  of 
Acton  Esq.  by  whom  hee  had  noe  issue. 

This  Certificate  was  taken  at  Beusey  vpon  the  15*  day  of  Janu- 

H 


50  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

ary  1637  by  Raudle  Hoolme  of  the  Citty  of  Chester  deputy  to  the 
office  of  Arrnes  and  testified  vnder  the  hande  of  Thomas  Irelaud 
of  Beusey  Esq.  sonne  and  heire  of  the  sayd  defuncte. 

Thomas  Ireland. 

[It  will  be  observed  that  this  funeral  certificate  was  not  issued  at  the 
time  of  Mr.  Ireland's  death,  but  was  the  result  of  an  inquiry  made 
twelve  years  afterwards,  probably  at  the  instigation  of  the  heralds,  by 
the  elder  Eandle  Holme  of  Chester. 

The  defunct  was  the  second  son  of  Robert  Ireland,  gent,  (a  younger 
son  of  Ireland  of  Lydiate)  by  his  wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Richard 
!Fo5  of  Broughton,  in  the  county  palatine  of  Chester.  {Lane.  MSS.,  vol. 
iii.  p.  314.)  There  is  no  pedigree  of  sir  Thomas  Ireland  in  the  Lancashire 
Visitations.  He  adopted  the  legal  profession,  and  had  been  successful 
at  the  bar,  as  he  was  appointed  vice-chamberlain  of  the  city  and  county 
of  Chester,  and  purchased  before  the  year  1586  the  Bewsey  estate,  in- 
cluding the  manor  and  advowson  of  the  rectory  of  Warrington,  of 
Edward  Butler,  esq.  (Marsh's  Hist,  of  Boteler's  Free  Grammar  School, 
p.  68.)  He  was  knighted  at  Bewsey  by  James  I.  on  the  21st  August 
16 1 7.  He  bore  six  quarterings,  differenced  by  a  crescent  upon  a  cres- 
cent. 

The  facts  contained  in  this  certificate  being  authenticated  by  the  son 
of  sir  Thomas  may  be  presumed  to  be  accurate,  but  they  difier  in  some 
respects  from  the  pedigree  of  the  family  deduced  in  the  year  1676  by 
captain  Booth  of  Stockport.  {Lane.  3ISS.,  vol.  iii.  p.  313.)  Sir  Thomas 
Ireland  is  there  stated  to  have  had  by  his  first  wife  (whose  name  is 
omitted)  an  eldest  son  Ceorge,  who  was  his  heir  apparent,  but  who  died 
8th  Charles  I.  1633  without  issue  male,  leaving  by  his  wife  the  widow 

of Banastre  of  Bank,  a  sole  child,  Margaret  Ireland,  who  became 

the  wife  of  Cuthbert  Clifton  of  Southworth,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster, 
esq.,  brother  of  sir  Thomas  Clifton  of  Clifton  and  Westby,  hart.,  by 
whom  she  had  no  issue.  Sir  Thomas  Ireland  married  secondly,  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  sir  Thomas  Aston  of  Aston,  knt.,  and  had  issue, 
I.  Baldwin,  who  died  young;  2.  Thomas,  "to  whom  his  father  gave 
Bewsey,"  and  who  endorsed  this  funeral  certificate;  3.  Robert,  who 
died  unmarried.  Sir  Thomas's  daughters  were,  i.  Elizabeth,  maiTied 
William,  son  and  heir  of  James  Bankes  of  Winstanley,  esq. ;  2.  Eleanor, 


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married  John  Atherton  of  Atlierton,  esq. ;  3.  Bridget,  married  Henry 
Byrom  of  Byrom,  esq. ;  4.  Margaret  (omitted  by  captain  Booth),  mar- 
ried John  Jefferys  of  Acton  in  the  county  of  Denbigh,  esq.,  and  became 
the  mother  of  the  notorious  judge  Jefferys,  created  baron  of  Wem, 
in  the  county  of  Salop,  who  is  now  represented  (through  the  earls  of 
Pomfret)  by  sir  Thomas  Hesketh  of  Euiford,  bart.,  M.P. 

After  the  death  of  his  wife  Margaret  Aston,  sir  Thomas  was  twice 
married,  according  to  this  certificate,  but  both  mai^riages  are  omitted  by 
captain  Booth.  Neither  is  it  recorded,  as  it  might  have  been,  in  this 
certificate,  that  Margaret,  widow  of  sir  Thomas,  became  the  wife  of  sir 
Thomas  Trevor  of  Trevallin,  ia  the  county  of  Denbigh,  eventually  consti- 
tuted baron  of  the  exchequer,  by  whom  she  had  no  issue.  In  1638 
lady  Trevor  received  dower  amounting  to  ,£200  per  annum  out  of  the 
Ireland  estate.     {Lane,  and  Chesh.  Wills,  vol.  iii.  p.  200.) 

Thomas  Ireland  of  Bewsey,  esq.  (whose  funeral  certificate  has  not 
been  found),  is  described  as  being  sir  Thomas's  "second  son  by  Mar- 
garet Aston  his  second  wife."  He  gave  the  information  here  contained 
to  Eandle  Holme.  He  was  born  about  the  year  1602,  and  does  not 
appear  to  kave  been  distinguished  in  war  or  conspicuous  in  peace,  but 
was  probably,  like  his  father,  skilled  in  the  law.  He  was  a  shrewd  man, 
of  some  ability,  and  perhaps  of  good  busiuess  habits.  He  was  not  slow 
in  vindicating  his  rights  or  taking  care  of  his  property.  It  is  not  to 
his  credit  that  he  sold  public  lands  appropriated  to  the  repair  of 
Warrington  bridge  without  making  any  other  provision  for  that  object 
(Beamont's  Warrington,  p.  87,  note),  and  in  1635  he  had  seized  or  held 
lands  in  Burtonwood  and  Grreat  Sankey,  which  were  claimed  by  sir 
Peter  Leigh  of  Lyme,  and  his  unpublished  con*espondence  with  Mr. 
John  Bradshaw,  a  legal  agent  of  sir  Peter,  on  the  subject  in  dispute, 
does  not  tend  to  elevate  his  character  or  establish  the  belief  in  his  fine 
sense  of  moral  right.  Sir  Peter  Leigh  declined  to  correspond  with  him, 
and  "  resolved  not  to  be  troubled  in  .person  "  by  him.  Ireland's  letters 
contain  some  curious  passages  and  striking  characteristics  of  the  times, 
and  Bradshaw's  rough  charge  against  the  lord  of  AVarrington  of  mis- 
representation, exaggeration  and  duplicity,  is  yet  expressed  in  cour- 
teous phraseology.  {Lane,  MS8.,  vol.  xxxviii.  pp.  316-17.)  Shortly 
after  this  misunderstanding  with  sir  Peter  Leigh,  Edward  Sonkey  of 
Sonkey,  gent.,  filed  a  bill  in  Chancery  against  Mr.   Ireland  for  an 


52  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

account  of  the  rents  of  his  estate  in  Little  Sonkey,  alleging  that  being 
only  three  years  old  when  his  father  died,  his  father's  executor,  sir 
Thomas  Ireland,  entered  upon  the  lands  and  retained  the  rents,  which 
Mr.  Ireland  evidently  withheld.  The  complainant  Sonkey  stated  that 
from  his  youth  he  had  been  a  traveller  beyond  the  seas,  and  having 
spent  many  years  abroad,  had  only  recently  returned.  (Beamont's 
Warrington,  note  p.  47.)  About  this  time  Mr.  Ireland  was  visited 
with  siclcness,  and  died  at  the  early  age  of  36,  leaving  issue  an  only 
surviving  child,  Margaret,  who  is  named  in  this  certificate.  She  mar- 
ried her  collateral  kinsman  sir  Grilbert  Ireland  of  Hutte  and  Hale,  knt;, 
who  died  issueless,  at  the  age  of  51,  in  the  year  1675,  leaving  his  widow 
surviving.  Being  seized  under  her  father's  settlement  of  his  estate, 
made  in  1638,  she  devised  Bewsey  and  "Warrington  to  her  cousin 
Eichard  Atherton  of  Atherton,  esq.,  ancestor  of  Thomas  lord  Lilford, 
the  present  noble  owner.  She  died  in  the  same  year  as  her  husband, 
aged  45. 

The  following  account  of  "The  order  of  the  funerall  of  Thomas 
Irland  of  Bewsey  Esq'  from  Bewsey  to  "Warrington  Church  Janii 
1638  "  is  from  Harl.  MS.  No.  2129,  fol.  59. 

No  poore  at  all. 

First  John  Gardiuer,  Tho.  Barnes. 

Tho.  Barton,  William  Barrow. 

Geo.  Woods,  alone. 

Penon  of  A"rmes  by  Piers  Gerard. 

Helme  and  Crest  by  Mr.  Tho.  Irland. 

Cote  of  Armes  by  Mr.  Jo.  Irland  of  Halwood. 

Mr.  Bently,  Physitian,  Mr.  Atherton. 

Mrs.  Barnett,  Mr  Coe,  Mr.  Ward,  preacher. 

The  Corpes  borne  by  Gents. 

Mrs.  Margret  Irland,  bed  mourner. 

Mrs.  Atherton,  Mrs.  Jeffreyes. 

Mrs.  Stanley,  Mrs.  Bankes. 

Mrs.  Alice  Stanley,  Mrs  Mary  Ogles. 

Margaret  Barlow. 
Mr.  Jo.  Atherton,  Mr.  Jo.  Jeffreyes. 

Mr.  Bankes,  Mr.  Tho.  Stanley. 

Mr.  Ja.  Bankes,  Mr.  Geo.  Atherton. 

Mr.  Rich.  Allen  and  his  sonne. 

Knts.,  Gents.,  &c. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


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Mr.  Ireland's  will  is  dated  Bewsey  i4tli  January  1638-9,  and  was 
proved  at  Chester  iSth  Aj)ril  1639.  -^^  i^^  ^^^^  ^^  was  "sicke  in 
bodye  "  and  died  two  days  afterwards.  He  desired  that  his  body  might 
be  buried  "  in  his  Chaple  at  his  parish  Church  in  Warrington  soe  as  it 
be  done  in  the  day  and  not  in  tlie  night,  with  a  Sermon  by  Mr.  "Ward 
parson  thereof,  and  with  noe  more  pompe  then  aceordinge  to  his  [testa- 
tors] degree."  {Lane,  and  Chesh.  Wills,  vol.  iii.  p.  199.)  There  is  a 
touch  of  parsimony  in  this  testamentary  injunction,  and  the  ominous 
announcement,  "no  poore  at  all"  at  the  funeral,  which  was  not  solem- 
nized until  the  22nd  February,  is  perhaps  characteristic  of  the  man. 
The  order  of  the  funeral  of  this  wealthy  manorial  lord  was  at' deviation  at 
this  time  from  the  ordinary  mode  of  conducting  funeral  pageants  in  Lan- 
cashire. Dr.  Whitaker  (Whalley,  p.  505,  3rd  ed.)  has  given  an  accurate 
and  interesting  account  of  the  ruinous  expenses  which  were  incurred 
in  the  seventeenth  century  by  country  gentlemen  on  the  decease  of 
the  heads  of  their  houses,  and  it  is  just  possible  that,  in  this  instance, 
the  testator  may  have  provided  wisely  and  well  against  the  prevalent 
extravagance  on  these  moui'uful  occasions.  He  may  have  felt  tliat  it 
was  possible  to  be  just  and  even  friendly  towards  his  neighbours  with- 
out adopting  their  opinions  wholesale,  and  that  moderation  and  pro- 
priety were  virtues  not  to  be  discarded,  whilst  reckless  and  useless 
expenditure,  although  fashionable,  was  to  be  discountenanced. 

The  rev.  William  Ward  was  presented  to  the  rectory  of  Warrington 
by  Thomas  Ireland,  esq.  the  patron,  in  the  year  162 1,  and  the  rev.  John 
Coe  (afterwards  rector  of  a  mediety  of  Lymm)  was  his  curate,  appointed 
also  by  Mr.  Ireland.    iJ.] 


ROBERT  EARL  OF  SUSSEX,  1629. 
Funeral  Certifieate,  J.  8.     34  Coll.  Arm. 

THE  right  honourable  Robert  Radcliffe  Earl  of  Sussex,  Vis- 
count Fitzwalter,  Lord  Egremont,  and  Burnell,  and  Knight 
of  the  noble  order  of  the  Garter,  departed  this  mortall  life  at  his 
house  in  Clerkenwell  the  xxij*^  daye  of  September  1629,  his  body 
beinge  honourably  transported  from  thence,  through  the  Citty  of 


54  LANCASUIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

London,  to  the  Barres  without  AUgate,  was  carried  to  Borhara  in 
Essex  by  Newhall,  and  buried  in  y^  parrish  church  there  by  his 
noble  Auncestors.  He  raaried  two  wives,  Bridget  first  wife  Da 
of  S''  Charles  Morison  of  Caishoberie  in  the  County  of  Hertford 
Knight,  by  whom  he  had  yssue  Henry  Lo:  ffitz-walter,  who  mar- 
ried Jane  Da  and  coheire  of  S'  Michaell  Stanhop  K*;  Thomas 
Ratcliffe  2^  sonne ;  Elizabeth  first  Da  married  to  S""  John  Ramsey 
Knight,  Viscount  Haddington  and  Earle  of  Holdernes ;  and  Ho- 
nora  2^  daughter;  all  died  without  yssue. 

He  mar^  to  his  2*^  wife  Francis  da  of  Hercules  Meutas  of  Hame 
in  the  county  of  Essex  Esq.  and  Pentioner  to  Queene  Elizabeth, 
by  whom  he  had  no  yssue.  The  honor  is  discended  to  Sir  Edward 
Ratcliffe  Knight,  sonne  and  heire  of  S'  Humphrey  Ratcliffe  K* 
2^  sonne  of  Robert  Ratcliffe  y®  first  Earle  of  Sussex,  created  by 
K.  H.  8.  the  8  day  of  December,  in  y^  2j  yeare  of  y®  said  Kings 
raigne  at  Whithall.  The  said  right  honourable  Robt.  Earle  of 
Sussex  made  M"^  Richard  Buckley  Executor  of  his  last  will  and 
Testament.  This  Certificate  was  taken  by  Samson  Lennard  Blew- 
mantle  officer  of  Armes. 


OSWALD  MOSLEY,  Esq.,  1630. 
Original  Funeral  Certificates  of  the  North  in  Coll.  Arm.,  No.  6. 

OSWALD  MOSLEY  of  Ancotts  in  the  County  of  Lancaster 
Esquier  departed  this  mortall  life  at  Ancotts  vpon  the  9*^ 
day  of  November  1630,  and  was  interred  in  Manchester  church. 

He  married  Anne  daughter  and  coheire  to  Alexander  Lowe  of 
Mile  end  nere  Steppard^s  in  the  County  of  Chester  gent,  by 
whom  he  had  yssue  Nicholas  Mosley  his  sonne  and  heyre  now  of 
the  age  of  19  yeares  or  thereabouts  at  the  tyme  of  his  father's 
death. 

^  Stockport,  sometimes  written  Stojipart. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  ^^ 

Edward  2  sonne  to  the  defuncte. 

Oswald  3  Sonne  to  the  defuncte. 

Samuell  4  sonne  to  the  defuncte. 

Francis  5  sonne  to  the  defuncte. 

Anne  eldest  dau.  to  the  defuncte  married  Robert  Booth  of  Sal- 
ford  in  the  county  of  Lancaster  gent,  by  whom  he  had  yssue 
Robert,  Humphrey  and  Anne  Booth. 

Margaret  2  dau.  vumarried. 

Mary  3  dau.  vnmarried. 

This  certificate  was  taken  at  Ancotts  vpon  the  26  day  of  January 
1637  by  Randle  Holme  of  the  Citty  of  Chester  deputy  to  the 
office  of  Armes  and  testyfied  under  the  hand  of  M'  Nicholas 
Mosley  sonne  and  heire  to  the  defuncte. 

Nicholas  Mosley. 

The  pedigree  recorded  at  the  Visitation  of  co.  Lane,  anno  1664, 
commences  with  Edward  Moseley,  who  by  his  wife,  Margaret,  davighter 
of  Alexander  Elcock  of  Hillgate,  co.  Cest.,  had  issue  sir  Nicholas 
Moseley  knt.,  an  alderman  of  London,  and  Anthony  Moseley  of  Man- 
chester, who  married  Alice,  daughter  of  Eichard  Webster  of  Manches- 
ter ;  by  her  he  had  issue  the  above  Oswald,  whose  wife  is  stated  to  have 
been  Anne,  daughter  and  coheir  of  Raufe  Lowe  of  Mile  End,  co.  Cest. 
Of  their  issue  mentioned  above,  the  following  particulars  are  stated  in 
the  Yisitation : 

•I.  Nicholas,  mard  Jane  dau'r  of  John  Lever  to  Alkrington,  co.  Lane, 
by  whom  he  had  Oswald  (aged  24  in  1664),  Edward,  Nicholas,  and 
Anne,  Elizt^*,  Jane  and  Catherine;  2.  Edward  was  of  Manchester,  and 
mar^  Meriall,  dau'r  of  Richard  Salstonstall  of  Huntwich,  co.  York, 
and  had  issue,  Edward  (aged  8),  and  Anne;  3.  Oswald  was  of  Man- 
chester, and  appears  to  have  died  before  10  Sepember  1664;  4.  Samuel 
was  residing  in  Ireland  in  1664  ;  and  5.  Erancis,  of  whom  nothing  more 
is  said  in  the  Visitation  ;  but  he  was  a  fellow  of  the  Collegiate  church 
of  Manchester,  i .  Anne,  married  Robert  Booth  of  Salford,  and  after- 
wards, Thomas  Case,  a  divine;  2.  Margaret,  married  John  Angier,  a 
divine ;  and  3.  Mary,  married  G-eorge  Crowther,  citizen  of  London.    K. 


f  6  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

[There  is  a  carefully  deduced  pedigree  of  Mosley  of  Ancoats  hall  in 
the  parish  of  Manchester  in  Booker's  Rist.  of  the  Parochial  Gliapelry 
of  Didshury,  CnExiiAM  series,  vol.  xlii.  p.  170;  and  an  etching  of  the 
monumental  brass  in  the  choir  of  Manchester  cathedral  dedicated  to  the 
memory  of  Oswald  Mosley  of  Ancoats,  esq.,  whose  funeral  certificate 
is  here  given,  (and  who  was  baptised  at  the  Collegiate  church,  Man- 
chester, April  26th  1583,  and  buried  there  November  i  ith  1630,  set.  47), 
in  Dr.  Hibbert  "Ware's  Hist,  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Manchester, 
vol.  i.  4to.  Also  notices  of  him  and  his  descendants,  with  an  engraving 
of  his  monument  and  a  view  of  Ancoats  hall,  in  sir  Oswald  Mosley's 
Family  Memoirs,  pp.  22-25,  4to.  1849,  privately  printed.     B.'] 


EDWARD  MOORE,  Esq.,  1633. 
Original  Funeral  Certificates  of  the  North  in  Coll.  Arm.,  No.  7. 

THE  Worlt  Edward  Moore  of  Banck  Hall  in  the  County  of 
Lancaster  Esquire  departed  this  mortall  life  living  within  a 
mile  and  a  halfe  of  Stone  in  the  County  of  Stafford  and  dyed  of  a 
Paluesley  suddenly  in  his  return  from  London,  and  lyth  interred 
in  Stone  Church  in  the  County  aforesayd.  He  dyed  vpon  the 
28  November  1633. 

The  sayd  defuncte  married  Katherine  daughter  of  John  Hock- 
noU  of  Prenton  in  the  County  of  Chester  Esquier  by  whom  she 
had  yssue  John  More  now  of  Bank  Hall  aforsayd  Esquier  sonne 
and  heyre,  at  the  takinge  of  this  certyficate  is  38  yeares  ould  or 
therabout  and  at  his  fathers  death  about  33  yeares  ould.  W^^'* 
sayd  John  Moore  married  Mary  daughter  of  Alexander  Rigby  of 
Bourgh  in  the  County  of  Lan^'  Esq'^  by  whom  she  had  yssue 
Edward,  Alexander  and  Katherine  Moore. 

Robert  Moore  second  sonne  to  the  defuncte  now  vnmarried 
1638.  Thomas  3  sonne  to  the  defuncte  dyed  since  his  father's 
death  without  yssue.      Elinor  eldest   daughter  to   the  defuncte 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


57 


married  William  Ireland  of  Leuerpoole  in  the  County  of  Lancaster 
by  whom  she  hath  noe  yssue. 

Elizabeth  second  daughter  to  the  defuncte  married  James  Bai- 
ley a  Scotchman  now  of  Irland  by  whom  she  hath  noe  yssue. 

Victoria  yongest  daughter  to  the  defuncte  not  yet  married. 

This  Certyficate  was  taken  at  Leuerpoole  aforsayd  upon  the 
23*^  day  of  April!  1638,  beinge  4  yeares  or  more  after  the  death  of 
the  sayd  Edward  Moore  Esq""  and  was  taken  by  Randle  Holme  of 
the  Citty  of  Chester,  gentleman,  depaty  of  the  office  of  Armes,  and 
certyfied  under  the  hand  of  M''^  Katherine  Moore  late  wife  and 
Administratrix  to  the  defuncte. 

Katheren  Moore. 

At  the  Visitation  of  the  co.  of  Lancaster  a°  1567,  a  pedigree  of 
Moore  of  Bank  hall  was  registered,  commencing  with  Thomas  More 
of  Liverpool,  who  married  Cicely,  daughter  and  sole  heir  of  Nicholas 
Turton  of  Eccleshall,  co.  Lancaster,  from  whom  iu  the  seventh  genera- 
tiou  descended  William  Moore  of  Bank  hall,  esq.,  who  married  Jane, 
daughter  of  James  Lightoulers,  and  had  issue  John  his  eldest  son.  The 
arms  are  tricked  in  pencil  only  by  the  Herald.  There  ia  no  pedigree  of 
these  Moores  in  the  subsequent  Visitations.     K. 

[Edward  Moore  the  head  of  a  family  which  had  uninterruptedly 
possessed  Bank  hall,  near  Liverpool,  from  the  earliest  part  of  the 
thirteenth  century,  married  about  the  year  1595  Katherine,  daughter 
of  John  Hockenhall  of  Prenton  in  Wirrall,  esq.  In  1621  Edward 
Moore  was  sheriff  of  Lancashire.  In  1625  he  represented  Liverpool 
in  parliament,  along  with  James,  lord  Strange,  but  did  not  retain  his 
honour,  under  the  Stanley  influence  iu  the  borough,  iu  the  next  parlia- 
ment. He  held  strong  protestaut  opinions,  and  made  his  Roman 
catholic  neighbours  writhe  under  the  oppressive  power  of  the  Star 
chamber  of  which  he  was  a  ready  agent.  In  1631  sir  William  Norris 
of  Speak,  a  dashing  soldier  and  a  recusant,  censured  Moore's  harsh 
conduct  as  a  magistrate  in  enforcing  the  penal  laws,  and  opprobrious 
language  was  unceremoniously  interchanged  between  these  neigh- 
bours. Moore  "  feared  not  to  touche  the  best,"  and  gave  the  soldier 
"  the  lie  ;  "  Norris  drew  his  sword  and  struck  Moore  twice.      For  thus 


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LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


assaulting  a  justice  of  the  peace  he  was  fined  looo/.,  committed  to 
prison,  and  made  to  pay  50/.  to  Moore.  After  a  turbulent  life,  Edward 
Moore  died  of  a  sudden  attack  of  pleurisy,  whilst  on  a  journey  from 
Loudon  to  Liverpool  in  the  winter  of  1633.  He  was  succeeded  by  his 
eldest  son  John  Moore  mentioned  in  this  certificate,  born  about  the 
year  1600,  a  deputy  lieutenant  and  magistrate  of  the  county  of  Lan- 
caster. He  married  in  1633  Mary,  daughter  of  Alexander  Rigby  of 
Burgh,  esq.  In  1640  he  was  burgess  in  parliament  for  Liverpool,  and 
joining  the  republican  party,  became  one  of  the  Lancashire  sequestra- 
tors, ranger  of  Knowsley  park,  and  one  of  the  most  active  tools  of  the 
2)opular  party.  He  was  appointed  governor  of  Liverpool,  and  became 
a  colonel  for  the  parliament.  He  sat  on  the  king's  trial,  and  signed 
his  death  warrant.  Being  with  his  regiment  in  Ireland,  and  the  plague, 
flux,  and  fever  every  where  raging,  he  died  in  June  1650  "  of  a  pleurisie, 
some  say  of  a  feaver."  It  is  somewhat  remarkable  that  the  father  and 
son  died  of  the  same  disorder.  Edward  Moore,  the  son  and  successor 
of  the  regicide,  was  created  a  baronet  in  1675,  which  title  expired  with 
sir  "William  Moore  the  fifth  baronet  in  the  year  1810.  The  Mental  of 
sir  Edward  Moore,  the  careful  but  vindictive  son  of  an  unfortunate  and 
disaffected  father,  has  been  printed  by  the  Chetham  society  (vol.  xii.), 
with  an  excellent  Introduction,  and  some  valuable  notes  by  the  editor, 
Thomas  Heywood,  esq.  This  funeral  certificate  supplies  several  genea- 
logical facts  which  had  escaped  the  research  of  Mr.  Heywood.     ^.] 


RICHARD  BOLD,  Esq.,  1635. 
Funeral  Certificates,  I.  24.     52''  Coll.  Arm. 

RICHARD  Bould  of  Bould,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  Es- 
quier,  Departed  this  mortall  life  at  Bould  aforesaid,  upon 
the  xix^i>  day  of  February  1635,  and  was  interred  in  Farnworth 
church,  in  the  said  county.  He  married  Anne  da  to  Sir  Peter 
Leigh  of  Lime  in  the  county  of  Chester  knight,  by  whom  he  had 
yssue  Richard  Bould  his  eldest  sonue,  which  dyed  in  his  fathers 
lifctyrae.    Peter  Bould  now  sonue  and  heire  of  the  age  of  ix  yeares 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  tg 

or  there  about  at  y«  tyrae  of  his  fathers  decease.  Margarett  eldest 
Da:  to  the  defunct.  Mary  i^^  Da:  Katherin  3d  Da:  Anne  4*^  Da: 
Frances  5*^  Da:  Radcliffe  6*'^  Da:  to  y«  defunct,  all  unmarried.  This 
Certificate  was  taken  at  Bould  upon  the  4th  Da:  of  March  1635 
by  Randle  Holme  of  the  Citty  of  Chester,  Deputie  to  the  office  of 
Armes,  and  testified  under  the  hand  of  Anne  late  wife  and  sole 
Executrix  to  the  defunct. 

Anne  Bould. 

The  pedigree  of  this  ancient  family  was  registered  at  the  Visitation 
A"  1664,  deducing  the  descent  from  Eicardus  de  Bolde,  in  co.  Lane, 
in  the  reign  of  king  Stephen.  Peter  Bold,  eldest  surviving  son,  and 
heir  of  the  defunct,  married  Joane,  daughter  of  sir  Ealphe  Assheton  of 
Whalley,  in  co.  Lane,  hart.,  and  died  in  1658  ;  by  her  he  had  issue, 
Richard,  who  oh.juv.,  and  Peter  Bold  aged  8  years  in  1664  ;  Margaret, 
eldest  daughter  of  the  defunct,  became  the  wife  of  Edward  Morgill  of 
Chester ;  Mary,  the  second  daughter,  married  John  Atherton  of  Ather- 
ton,  CO.  Lane,  esq. ;  Catherine,  the  third  daughter,  married  Roger 
Pritchard  of  Wales  ;  Anne,  the  fourth  daughter,  died  unmarried  ;  Tran- 
ces, the  fifth  daughter,  married  Henry  Ogle  of  Whiston,  co.  Lane. ;  and 
Eatcliffe,  the  youngest  daughter,  married  James  Dukenfield  of  Hindley, 
CO.  Lane.     Arms  argent  a  griffin  segreant  sahle. 

[See  Baines's  Hist,  of  Lane.  vol.  iii.  p.  717,  where  the  pedigree  of 
the  family  is  given ;  also  a  view  of  Bold  hall,  and  an  etching  of  the 
monument  erected  in  the  Bold  chapel  within  Parnworth  church,  to  the 
memory  of  Richard  Bold  of  Bold,  esq.,  the  defunct,  who  died  on  the 
19th  February  1635,  aged  47  years.  For  an  account  of  the  family 
chapel  see  canon  Raines's  Hist,  of  Lane.  Gliantries,  Chetham  series, 
vol.  i.  p.  76 ;  and  for  notices  of  the  Bolds,  Gent.  Mag.,  vol.  xciv.  pt.  ii. 
p.  198;  Gregson's  Fragments  of  Lane.;  Lane.  MSS.,  vol.  xii. ;  and 
Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  113,  note,  Chetham  series.     i2.] 


6o  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

RICHARD  VISCOUNT  MOLYNEUX,  1636. 
Funeral  Certificate  in  the  Public  Record  Office. 

THE  right  \\o^^^  S"^  Richard  Molineux  of  Sefton  in  the  county 
of  Lancaster  Knt.  the  second  Baronet  (created  22^^  May  in 
the  9*^  yeare  of  King  James)  and  after  made  Viscount  Molineux  of 
jNIariburgh  in  the  kingdom  of  Ireland  by  our  Sovereign  Lord 
King  Charles  in  the  ....  yeare  of  his  raigne,  departed  this  mor- 
tall  life  at  Sefton  aforesaid  S''*  of  May  1636,  where  he  lyeth 
interred.  lie  married  Mary,  daughter  and  one  of  the  coheires  of 
Sir  Thomas  Carrcll  of  Sussex  Knt.  by  whom  he  had  issue  Richard 
Molineux,  eldest  sonne,  now  Viscount  Molineux  of  Mariburgh, 
who  married  Mary,  daughter  to  James  Lord  Strange,  heire  appa- 
rent to  William  Earle  of  Derby,  Lord  Stanley,  Strange  of  Knock- 
ing and  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  Knight  of  the  Most  Noble  Order 
of  the  Garter;  Carrell  second  sonne. 

In  1779  a  pedigree  was  recorded  of  this  family,  commencing  with 
sir  Richard  Molineux  of  Sefton,  who  was  knighted  at  the  coronation  of 
queen  Mary.  He  died  in  1567,  having  married  Eleanor,  daughter  of 
sir  Alexander  Radcliffe  of  Ordsall,  co.  Lane,  knt.,  and  by  whom  he  had 
issue,  "William  Molineux  his  eldest  son,  who  died  in  the  lifetime  of  his 
father  in  the  same  year.  He  married  Bridget,  the  daughter  of  John 
Laseelles,  esq'^,  attorney-general  of  the  duchy  of  Lancaster,  by  whom 
he  had  issue,  sir  Richard  Molineux,  knt.,  knighted  by  queen  Elizabeth 
24th  June  1586,  then  aged  26,  and  was  the  secondly  created  baronet 
on  the  first  creation  of  that  order  by  king  James,  being  advanced  to 
the  dignity  on  the  22nd  May,  9  Jac.  He  married  Frances,  daughter  of 
sir  Gilbei-t  Gerard,  knt.,  master  of  the  rolls,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  sir 
Richard  Molineux  the  Defunct,  subject  of  the  above  certificate,  who 
was  created  viscount  Molineux  of  Maryborough,  in  the  peerage  of  Ire- 
land, by  patent,  22nd  December  1628.  He  married  Mary,  daughter 
and  coheir  of  sir  Thomas  Caryll  of  Benton,  co.  Sussex,  knt.,  by  Avhom 
he  had  issue,  i.  Richard  Molineux,  second  viscount  Molineux,  his  eldest 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  6 1 

son,  who  married  Frances,  daughter  of  William  Seymour,  marquis  of 
Hertford,  and  afterwards  duke  of  Somerset,  but  died  about  165 1  with- 
out issue;  2.  Gary  11  Moliueux,  who  succeeded  his  brother  as  viscount 
Molineux  (ancestor  of  the  present  earl  of  Sefton),  and  who  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  sir  Alexander  Barlow  of  Barlow,  co.  Lane,  knt., 
and  died  2nd  February  1698-9 ;  and  two  daughters,  i.  Elizabeth,  wife 
of  sir  William  Stanley  of  Hooton,  co.  Chester,  baronet;  2.  Mary,  wife 
of  sir  Greorge  Selby  of  Whitehouse,  in  the  bishopric  of  Durham,  baro- 
net.   (This  is  the  only  issue  given  in  the  pedigree  of  1779.) 

The  pedigree  of  Molineux  is  deduced  from  William  des  Molins,  first 
lord  of  Sefton,  by  grant  of  Roger  de  Poictiers,  from  a  grant  of  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  a  copy  of  the  descent,  with  the  arms  to  each  match, 
is  amongst  Vincent's  MS8.  in  this  college  (No.  23,  p.  30).    JT. 

[He  succeeded  his  father  in  16 — •,  and  was  contracted  in  marriage 
during  his  minority  to  Fleetwood,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Hichard 
Barton  of  Barton,  esq.,  but  from  whom  he  was  divorced  by  sentence  of 
the  consistory  court  of  Chester,  15th  February  1607,  and  she  after- 
wards became  the  wife,  first,  of  Richard  Shuttleworth  of  Gawthorp, 
esq. ;  and  secondly,  of  Thomas  Stanley  of  Eccleston,  esq.  {Lane.  MSS. 
vol.  xii.J 

Sir  Eichard  Molineux  married  Mary,  daughter  and  coheir  of  sir 
Thomas  Caryll  of  Benton,  co.  Sussex,  knt.,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  i. 
Richard,  betrothed  in  his  early  years,  but  not  married,  to  Henriette 
Marie,  daughter  of  James  the  7th  earl  of  Derby,  K.G. ;  he  afterwards 
married  lady  Frances  Seymour,  daughter  of  the  duke  of  Somerset,  and 
the  descendant  maternally  of  Charles  duke  of  SuflEblk,  by  Mary,  queen 
dowager  of  France,  daughter  of  king  Henry  VII.,  but  ob.  s.p. ;  2. 
Caryll ;  3.  Philip  ;  4.  Frances  ;  5.  Elizabeth  ;  and  6.  Mary. 

He  was  created  viscount  Molyneux  of  Maryburgh  in  Ireland  on  the 
22nd  December  4  Car.  1628,  and  died  in  the  year  1636  (and  not  1632 
as  stated  in  the  peerages,  and  also  in  the  family  pedigree  in  Baines's 
Hist,  of  Lane,  vol.  iv.  p.  216).  His  relict  died  "at  her  house  in  St. 
Martin's  Lane  in  the  Fields,  London"  in  1639.     B.] 


62  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  \ 

ALICE,  COUNTESS  OF  DERBY,  1636-7. 
Funeral  Certificate,  I.  8.     53''  Coll.  Arms. 

THE  right  honourable  Lady  Alice  Countesse  Dowager  of  Derby 
departed  this  mortall  life  at  her  house  at  Harust  in  the  county 
of  Middlesex  the  23'^  day  of  January  1636.  She  was  first  the  wife 
of  Ferdynando  Lord  Stanley  Strang  and  of  the  Isle  of  Man,  the 
fifth  Earl  of  Derby ;  she  was  da.  of  Sir  John  Spencer  Knight  and 
aunt  of  Robert  the  first  Baron  Spencer  of  Wormleighton  in  the 
county  of  North'ton.  She  was  2^^^  maried  to  Sir  Thomas  Egerton 
Knight  Lord  Elsmere  Viscount  Brackley  and  Lord  Chauncellor  of 
England,  by  whom  she  had  no  yssue.  But  by  her  first  husband  she 
had  yssue  3  daughters  his  heires  geuerall.  Anne  the  eldest  mar"^  to 
Gray  Bridges  Lord  Chandos  of  Shudeley  Castle  in  Gloucestershire. 
Frances  the  2^  maried  to  Sir  John  Egerton  Kn*  now  Earl  of 
Bridgwater  2^  sonne  and  heire  mayle  of  the  foresaid  Sir  Thomas 
Egerton  Lord  Chauncellor  aforesaid.  Elizabeth  y®  youngest  maried 
to  Henry  Lord  Hastings  now  Earl  of  Huntington.  She  left  her 
sole  Executor  the  right  honourable  Henry  Montague  Earle  of 
Manchester  Viscount  Mandeuile  and  Lord  Kymbolton  Lord  Priuy 
Scale  who  hath  attested  the  truth  of  this  Certificate  which  was 
taken  by  William  Riley  Blewmantle  Officer  of  Armes. 

Manchester. 

[Alice,  the  eleventh  and  youngest  child  of  sir  John  Spencer  of  Worm- 
leighton in  the  county  of  Warwick,  and  of  Althorp  in  the  county  of 
Northants,  knt.,  M.P.,  and  of  his  wife,  Katharine,  daughter  of  sir  Thomas 
Kitson  of  Heugrave  in  the  county  of  Suffolk,  knt.,  was  born  about  the 
year  1556.  Her  five  elder  sisters  were  married  to  men  of  high  rank  and 
great  wealth,  and  all  her  brothers  seem  to  have  been  distinguished  by 
their  social  position  and,  like  their  father,  for  their  bountiful  house- 
keeping and  almost  princely  munificence.  Robert,  first  lord  Spencer 
(so  created  July  21st  1603),  was  grandson  of  sir  John  and  nephew  of 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  63 

Alice,  lady  Derby,  and  wlien  king  James  ascended  the  English  throne 
was  represented  to  be  the  richest  monied  man  in  the  kingdom.  Fer- 
diuando,  lord  Strange,  was  boi'n  about  the  year  1558,  and  married 
Alice,  daughter  of  sir  John  Spencer,  in  1579.  She  appears  to  have 
been  a  great  favourite  with  her  husband's  father,  earl  Henry,  as  she, 
her  husband  and  their  children  were  constantly  at  Knowsley  and  La- 
thom  house.  (Vide  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.)  It  is  evident  from  a  letter 
addressed  by  queen  Elizabeth  to  Henry  lord  Strange  December  6th 
157 1,  that  more  than  one  eldest  son  of  the  house  of  Stanley  has  been 
regarded  as  an  honourable  hostage,  and  kept  in  gentle  durance  by  the 
sovereign,  and  that  the  fourth  as  well  as  the  first  earl  might  have  said : 
"  My  son  ....  Stanley  is  fi-ank'd  up  in  hold,"  {Bic.  III.,  act  iv.  sc.  v.) 
although  the  opposition  of  earl  Henry,  if  at  any  time  adverse  to  the 
queen,  would  be  faint  and  timid.  Her  majesty  writes  :  "  By  your  letters 
Dear  Coosyn  your  wiffe  and  otherwise  also  we  understand  how  well  and 
ernestly  disposed  you  are  towards  us  and  our  service,  and  that  the 
cause  of  your  absence  from  hence  is  not  other  than  to  attend  uppon  our 
Coosyn  your  Father  now  in  his  sicknes  and  thereby  also  in  tyme  of  his 
sicknes  to  have  regard  for  the  good  order  of  this  country,  for  the  con- 
tinuance of  the  same  quietnes,  all  which  we  do  very  well  allow  in  you, 
and  in  such  respect  we  are  the  better  content  with  your  long  absence  : 
and  knowing  your  ernest  goodwill  to  serve  and  please  us  at  all  tymes 
the  lyke  wherof  we  are  sorry  not  to  have  found  in  your  Brother  which 
we  know  cannot  but  be  displeasant  to  our  Coosyn  your  good  Father 
whom  we  have  great  cause  to  love  and  esteem  for  his  approved  fidelitie 
to  us  in  these  tymes.  ....*.  We  will  not  otherwise  therefore  at  this 
tyme  direct  you  to  repayre  hyther  than  yourselfe  shall  see  may  stand 
with  your  father's  lyking  in  his  sycknes,  but  yet  considering  your  ab- 
sence we  have  been  ernest  with  our  Coosyn  your  wife  that  she  wold 
move  you  to  send  up  youre  Eldest  Sone  to  be  here  some  tyme  that 
both  we  might  see  hym  and  his  Mother  might  have  some  comfort  of 
him,  and  chiefly  that  he  might  here  learn  some  nurture  and  be  fashioned 
in  good  manners  mete  for  one  such  as  he  is  and  hereafter  shall  be  by 
cours  of  nature  mete  to  serve  the  Eealm.  And  so  we  conclude  with 
this  ernest  request  and  our  commendations  to  your  Father,  to  whom  we 
hartely  wish  amendment  in  Helth  :  and  with  his  good  lyking  you  may 
send  hym  up  to  be  here  this  Christmas  and  which  we  will  now  assuredly 


64  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

look  for."  (Murdin's  State  Pap.,  p.  185.)  The  jealousy  of  the  queen 
could  only  l)e  allayed  by  the  presence  of  the  youthful  Ferdinando  at 
court,  who  naturally  enough  at  this  time  lingered  about  the  sick  cham- 
ber of  his  venerable  grandfather.  Like  her  royal  predecessor,  Elizabeth 
had  hard  thoughts  of  the  Stanleys,  and  her  suspicions  were  excited  by 
the  absence  of  three  generations  from  her  immediate  presence  —  "  Cold 
friends  to  me  :  what  do  they  in  the  North,  when  they  should  serve  their 
Sovereign  ?  "  {Ric.  III.,  act  iv.  sc.  iv.)  And  so  doubtless  the  caprice 
if  not  cruelty  of  the  queen  was  gratified,  and  the  young  stripling,  now 
in  his  fourteenth  year,  was  sent  to  Windsor.  Lord  Strange  does  not 
appear  to  have  filled  any  ofiice  about  the  court,  although  so  nearly 
allied  to  the  queen,  his  grandmother  being  her  majesty's  first  cousin 
and  granddaughter  of  Henry  VII.,  and  he  was  connected  in  other  ways 
with  most  of  the  noblest  families  in  the  kingdom.  Lord  Strange  and 
his  wife  were  however  received  with  mark*  of  high  confidence  and 
favour  by  the  queen,  and  the  former,  as  a  young  man,  was  present  in 
the  year  1575,  when  Elizabeth  was  at  "Worcester  on  her  way  to  "Wood- 
stock, acccompauied  by  five  bishops,  a  large  number  of  the  nobility, 
and  many  ladies  of  the  highest  rank,  and  when  all  that  chivalry  and 
romance  could  evolve  of  pomp,  pride  and  circumstance,  was  in  requisi- 
tion to  honour  the  queen  and  grace  her  progress.  (Nichols's  Prog, 
of  Queen  Eliz.,  vol.  i.) 

On  January  ist  1574-5,  a  new  year's  gift  was  presented  to  the  queen 
by  the  youthful  lord  Strange,  viz.,  "an  eare  picke  of  gold  euamuled, 
garnished  with  sparcks  of  rubyes,  blue  saphires  and  seede  pearle,  dim. 
oz.  dim.p"!."  And  on  the  ist  January  I575-6,  lord  Sti^ange  again 
presented  to  her  Majesty  "  a  jewell  of  golde,  beinge  a  Squyrrell  sett 
with  iii  sparcks  of  dyamondes,  iii  sparcks  of  emeraldes,  and  iv  sparcks 
of  rubyes,  with  iii  mene  perles."  {Ibid)  Lord  and  lady  Strange  do 
not  appear  to  have  been  always  present  at  the  delivery  of  the  sermons 
of  the  great  Lancashire  puritan  preachers  at  Latliom  and  Knowsley,  in 
the  time  of  earl  Henry,  but  in  1577  lord  Strange  was  one  of  the 
auditors  of  "  A  Sermon  Preached  before  the  Eight  Hon.  the  Earle  of 
Darbie,  and  divers  others,  assembled  in  His  Honor's  Chappel  at  New- 
parke,  in  Lancashire,  the  2nd  Januarie  i577j  ^J  ^o\m  Caldwell,  Parson 
of  Winwick.  Black  letter  4to.  Dedicated  to  the  Earl.  Printed  by 
Thomas  East,  Loudon,  13th  March  1577"^* 

^  There  is  a  copy  of  this  very  scarce  sermon  in  the  library  at  Kuowsley. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  65 

Lord  Strange,  from  the  earliest  period,  was  interested  in  the  court 
revels,  theatricals  and  masques,  which  would. introduce  to  his  notice  the 
poets  and  artists  of  the  period.  "A  Historie  of  Love  and  Fortune  was 
shewed  before  Her  Majestie  at  Windsor  on  the  Sondaie  at  night  next 
before  New  Tears  daie  1582,  enacted  by  the  Earle  of  Dei-bie's  Ser- 
vantes :"  And  "  Sundry  Feates  of  Tumbling  and  Activitie  were  shewed 
before  Her  Ma*'^  on  New  Tears  Daie  at  night  by  the  Lord  Straunge  his 
Servants ;  for  which  was  bought  and  imploied  xxi  yards  of  cotton  for 
the  matachins,  iii  ells  of  sarcenet  and  viii  pair  of  gloves."  (Cunning- 
ham's Accounts  of  the  Court  Bevels,  p.  177.)  Lord  Strange  is  said  to 
have  "  distempered  his  health  by  vehement  exercise,"  and  we  know 
that  he  entered  into  the  fashionable  recreations  of  stag  hunting,  hawk- 
ing and  coursing  with  his  neighbours  in  Lancashire  {Stanley  Papers, 
pt.  ii.  pp.  45,  57,  76),  and  probably  practised  tilting  in  the  south,  as  his 
portrait,  now  at  "Worden,  was  painted  vsdth  the  helmet  and  tilting  spear 
as  adjuncts  to  the  picture.     {Ibid.  p.  Ixiii.) 

On  Wednesday  January  6th  1587-8,  lord  Strange's  youngest  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth  (apparently  named  after  the  queen),  was  christened  at 
Xnowsley,  on  which  occasion  the  high  sheriif,  a  great  party,  "  and 
many  gentlewomen,  came  to  the  christening  "  banquet.  {Ibid.  p.  46.) 
It  was  not  until  Wednesday  the  3rd  of  February,  nearly  a  month  after- 
wards, that  the  bishop  of  Chester  arrived  at  Kjiowsley,  and  lady  Strange 
was  "  churched  "  in  the  presence  of  a  great  assembly  of  relatives  and 
friends,  lord  Strange  being  absent  at  Stoneleigh  Abbey  with  his  brother- 
in-law,  Mr.  Leigh  (who  married  lady  Strange's  sister),  and  did  not  return 
to  Knowsley  until  the  following  Saturday,  when  he  found  the  bishop  and 
many  guests  awaiting  his  arrival.  {Ibid.  p.  48.)  On  Friday  27th  Sep- 
tember 1 5  88,  "Lady  Strange  and  the  little  children  of  hers"  came  to 
New  park,  the  earl  having  arrived  on  the  preceding  day,  {ibid.  p.  50,) 
but  it  was  not  until  Saturday  the  2nd  November,  that  "my  Lord 
Strandge  retorned  from  London,"  {ibid.  p.  52,)  and  on  the  Wednesday 
following  he  and  lord  Dudley  again  went  to  London,  lady  Strange  in 
the  mean  time  remaining  with  the  earl,  and  lord  Strange  "  not  coming 
home"  to  Lathom  house  from  London  until  Tuesday  4th  January 
1588-9.  {Ibid.  p.  57.)  This  long  absence  in  London  had  doubtless 
some  connection  with  the  public  alarm  on  the  subject  of  the  Spanish 
invasion,  lord  Strange  being  mayor  of  Liverpool  in   1588,  and  having 


66  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

taken  a  prominent  part  iu  organizing  the  defences  of  the  county,  and 
also  having  raised  a  large  force  of  horsemen  for  that  purpose. 

On  Tuesday  the  25th  January  1588-9,  the  earl  and  lord  and  lady 
Strange  left  Lathom  house  for  Loudon,  the  children  of  the  latter  hav- 
ing been  sent  away  under  the  charge  of  Edward  Stanley,  esq.  (their 
father's  bachelor  uncle),  on  the  preceding  day.     (Ibid.  p.  58.) 

On  Wednesday  Jidy  15th  1589,  lord  Strange  and  his  three  daughters 
arrived  at  Knowsley,  from  a  visit  to  sir  John  Byron  (ibid.  p.  62,)  either 
at  Clayton  hall  or  Newstead.  September  17th  1589,  "Eerdinando  lord 
Stanley  and  Strange,"  sir  John  Spencer  (his  brother-in-law),  and  sir 
Geoi'ge  Carew  (afterwards  earl  of  Totnes),  were  created  masters  of  arts 
at  Oxford  (Wood's  Fasti  [Bliss],  vol.  i.  p.  250),  sir  Christopher  Hatton 
having  just  been  appointed  chancellor  of  the  University.  In  March 
1589-90,  we  again  find  lord  and  lady  Strange  at  Knowsley,  exceedingly 
popular,  surrounded  by  all  the  old  families  of  the  county,  whom  they 
daily  received  at  their  hospitable  mansions,  and  in  return  visited  their 
country  friends  in  the  most  social  manner,  dining  at  Holker,  Eufford, 
Cross  hall,  Croxteth,  and  other  houses  during  their  sojourn  in  Lanca- 
shire. (Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.)  He  attended  the  spring  assize  at 
Lancaster  in  April  1590,  "concerning  Mr.  Baron  of  Walton's  (New- 
ton's) cawses,"  which  required  the  advocacy  of  powerful  relatives  and 
friends,  and  remained  there,  doubtless  watching  the  curious  proceedings 
with  more  than  ordinary  interest,  all  the  week.  (Ibid.  p.  78,  and  p.  97, 
note.)  Shortly  afterwards  he  and  his  wife  went  to  London,  "  the  chil- 
dren staying  behind  "  and  their  father  returning  again  to  Knowsley  in 
August  of  that  year.  (Ibid.  pp.  79,  90.) 

Eerdinando  lord  Strange  succeeded  his  father  as  fifth  earl  of  Derby 
on  the  25th  September  1593.  On  the  12th  October  following  appeared 
"  A  Ballad  by  John  Dauter,  entitled,  Lancashire's  Lamentation  for  the 
death  of  the  Noble  Erie  of  Derbie  "  (Notes  and  Queries,  3rd  series,  vol. 
i.  p.  401),  and  other  poets  also  bewailed  the  nation's  loss.  At  Christ- 
mas 1593,  the  young  earl  was  elected  a  governor  of  the  free  grammar 
school  of  queen  Elizabeth,  in  Blackburn,  and  contributed  "  of  bene- 
volence money "  to  the  Domus  fund  xx^,  and  his  friend  "  Thomas 
Gerard  of  Bryn,  gent.,"  was  also  elected,  and  made  a  similar  contribution, 
at  the  same  time;  (Lane.  MSS.,  Blachburn  School.)  Mr.  Yates,  a 
learned  Greek  scholar  being  the  head  master,  and  two  of  his  pupils 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 


67 


being  Robert  Bolton  and  "  golden-moutlied  "  Anderton ;  the  first  after- 
wards becoming  a  distinguished  English  churchman,  of  the  Puritan  type, 
and  the  latter  a  Eoman  catholic  (see  Life  of  Bolton,  vol.  i.  pp.  9, 14,  4to, 
1 64 1 ) ,  and  both  of  them  Lancashii-e  men.  The  young  nobleman  surviyed 
his  popular  father  little  more  than  six  months,  and  died,  according  to 
the  credulity  of  the  age,  of  witchcraft  or  poison,  after  a  short  illness,  at 
Lathom  house,  on  the  1 6th  April  1594,  at  the  age  of  35  years.  According 
to  the  suspicious  rumoiu'S  and  exaggerations  of  the  time,  dangerous  and 
insidious  proposals  were  supposed  to  havebeen  made  to  him  by  theEoman 
catholic  party,  in  connection  with  the  succession  to  the  crown  on  the 
anticipated  death  of  Elizabeth,  which  his  integrity  and  loyalty  led  him 
immediately  to  reject,  and  it  was  currently  reported,  and  beliered  by 
many,  that  the  disappoiated  party  had  efiected  his  death  by  poison.  It 
is  fortunate  that  a  minute  contemporaneous  account  of  his  disorder 
and  its  symptoms  has  been  preserved,  and  there  is  no  need,  fi'om  the 
evidence  in  that  record,  to  attribute  his  death  either  to  the  effects 
of  witchcraft  or  poison.  "  One  excellent  speech  among  many,"  we  are 
told,  "  cannot  be  omitted,  in  the  time  of  his  sickness,  especially  on  the 
day  before  he  departed,  at  which  time  he  desired  one  of  his  doctors,  whom 
he  especially  loved,  to  persuade  him  no  longer  to  live ;  because,"  said 
he,  "  although  out  of  thy  love  thou  wouldest  stir  up  hopes  of  life,  and 
dost  employ  all  thy  \At,  art,  and  travail  to  that  end ;  yet  knowing  for 
a  certainty  that  I  must  now  die,  I  pray  thee  cease,  for  I  am  resolved 
presently  to  die,  and  to  take  away  with  me  only  one  part  of  my  arms, 
I  mean  the  Eagle's  Wings,  so  will  I  fly  swiftly  into  the  bosom  of 
Cheist,  my  only  Saviovu' ;  and  with  that  he  sent  for  his  lady,  and  gave 
her  his  last  farewell,  desiriag  her  to  take  away  and  love  his  Doctor,  and 
also  to  give  him  some  jewel,  with  his  arms  and  name  that  he  might  be 
remembered,  which  thing  immediately  after  his  death  was  most  honoui'- 
ably  performed."  His  spiritual  physicians  were  Chaderton,  bishop  of 
Chester,  and  Mr.  William  Leigh,  B.D.,  the  learned  rector  of  Standish, 
who  was  the  earl's  domestic  chaplain,  and  had,  in  early  life,  been  his 
tutor  {Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  117,  note),  having  filled  both  the  ofiices 
of  tutor  and  chaplain  to  prince  Henry,  son  of  James  I.  {Eoyal  House- 
hold Boohs  pub.  by  Soc.  of  Antiq.  p.  329,  4to,  1790.)  The  physicians 
who  attended  the  earl  were  Dr.  Canon,  Dr.  Joyner,  Dr.  Bate,  and  Dr. 
Case  —  one  of  their  number,  at  least,  living  in  Chester.     (Harl.  MS., 


68  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

247,  fo.  204-5  ;  Gent.  Mag.,  vol.  xxi.  p.  269.)  Notwithstanding  his  dan- 
gerous proximity  to  the  crown,  lord  Strange  had  always  been  regarded 
as  a  loyal  subject  to  the  queen,  although  without  influence  at  court,  and 
if  not  employed  officially  in  the  service  of  his  country,  his  patriotism 
was  never  questioned.  He  appears  to  have  been  considered  by  his  con- 
temporaries a  man  of  liberal  acquirements,  and  it  is  certain  that  his 
popularity  was  equal  to  his  abilities  and  accomplishments.  He  had  a 
taste  for  the  fashionable  and  romantic  amusements  of  the  day,  and  was 
the  patron  and  associate  of  men  of  letters.  He  also  had  the  reputation 
of  being  himself  a  poet.  It  was  of  him,  under  the  name  of  Amtj^tas, 
that  Edmund  Spenser  sang  in  "  Colin  Clout :  " 

He,  whilst  he  lived,  was  the  noblest  swain 

That  ever  piped  on  an  oaten  quill ; 
Both  did  he  other,  which  could  pipe,  maintain, 

And  eke,  could  pipe  himself  with  passing  skill,     (p.  34.) 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  productions  of  lord  Strange  are  un- 
known, although  some  of  his  occasional  pieces  without  his  name  were 
published  in  16 10,  in  a  collection  of  English  poems,  entitled  "  Belve- 
dere, or  the  Garden  of  the  Muses,"  with  those  of  the  more  celebrated 
poets  of  his  time.  It  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  a  poet  like  Spenser, 
to  whom  he  was  personally  known,  and  who  claimed  relationship  to 
lady  Strange,  would  have  described  him  adventitiously  as  a  poet,  had 
he  not  merited  the  distinction. 

There  are  two  portraits  of  this  earl,  one  of  them  at  Knowsley  and 
the  other  at  Newhall,  the  seat  of  sir  Eobert  T.  G-erard,  bart.,  and  the 
features  in  both  bear  a  striking  resemblance  to  the  portrait  at  Worden 
hall,  of  which  there  is  an  etching  in  the  Stanley  Papers,  pt.  ii.  p.  Ixiii. 
The  build  is  light,  the  complexion  fair,  the  hair  dark-brown,  the  beard 
peaked,  and,  like  the  moustache,  sandy.  The  eyes  are  blue,  and  the 
artist  has  not  omitted  the  wart  on  the  forehead.  The  expression  is 
singularly  amiable  and  intelligent.  The  portrait  at  Kjiowsley  is  a 
bust,  and  he  wears  a  black  velvet  doublet,  and  an  open  lace-edged  col- 
lar. In  the  large  picture  at  Newhall  there  are  two  figures,  half  length. 
The  earl  is  pourtrayed  arm  in  arm  with  his  friend  and  neighbour  Mr. 
(afterwards  sir  Thomas)  G-erard  of  Brynn.  Both  are  dressed  in  black 
velvet  doublets  aiid  open  lace  collars,  lord  Strange'a  hand  resting  on 
his  sword,  and  Mr.  Gerard's  on  a  skull.      Their  arms  and  titles  are  on 


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the  backgroimd.  There  is  no  date,  but  as  the  earl  does  not  appear 
to  be  more  than  about  26  or  28,  and  his  singularly  handsome-lookiag 
friend  some  years  older,  the  portraits  would  be  taken  whilst  he  was  lord 
Strange.     The  artist  is  unknown. 

The  earl  left  issue  the  three  daughters  and  coheiresses  mentioned  in 
this  funeral  certificate,  their  father  being  the  heir  general  of  Joan,  wife 
of  sir  G-eorge  Stanley,  and  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  lord 
Strange  and  Mohun,  son  and  heir  of  Richard,  lord  Strange  of  Knockyn, 
grandson  of  John,  lord  Mohiin  of  Dunster,  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
most  noble  order  of  the  Grarter.  (Beltz's  Memor.  of  the  Order  of  the 
Garter,  p.  51.)  The  eldest  daughter,  the  lady  Anne,  was  born  May 
1580,  the  lady  Frances  August  1583,  and  the  lady  Ehzabeth  January 
15S7-8. 

Shortly  after  the  death  of  her  husband  lady  Derby  commenced  the 
famous  law  suits  with  AVilliam  the  sixth  earl  of  Derby,  respecting  his 
title  to  the  Isle  of  Man  and  other  hereditary  estates  of  the  Stanley 
family.  On  the  23rd  September  1594,  Mr.  Michael  Doughtie,  servant 
of  William  earl  of  Derby,  and  Mr.  Hugh  EUis,  servant  to  the  lady 
Alice  countess  dowager  of  Derby,  deposited  in  the  presence  of  Francis 
lord  Bacon  and  others,  a  trunk  containing  family  evidences,  in  the 
custody  of  sir  Thomas  Egerton,  afterwards  lord  Ellesmere.  {Egerton 
Papers,  p.  205,  Camdejt  Soc.)  Her  ladyship  was  still  in  favour  at 
court,  and  apparently  well  acquainted  with  the  queen's  tastes  and 
foibles,  as  on  the  1st  of  January  1599-1600,  "the  countes  of  Darby, 
wydow"  of  earl  Eerdinando,  presented  to  her  majesty  "one  pettycote 
without  bodyes  [bodice]  of  silver  tynsell,  wrought  in  squares,  with  a  bor- 
der of  trees  of  grene  sylke  needlework;"  and  the  queen's  new  year's 
gift  to  "the  countess  of  Darby,  wydow,"  was  a  piece  of  "  guilt  Plate, 
K.  21  oz.  di.  di.  9^    (Nichols's  Prog.  Queen  Eliz.,  vol.  i.) 

The  profound  legal  and  judicial  ability  of  sir  Thomas  Egerton,  after- 
wards the  lord  chancellor,  secured  for  the  dowager  coimtess  of  Derby 
and  her  daughters  a  larger  portion  of  the  old  hereditary  estates  and 
titles  of  the  Stanleys  than  any  of  the  parties  interested  in  them  had 
originally  anticipated.  In  the  year  1599  he  had  the  misfortune  to  lose 
both  his  eldest  son  sir  Thomas  Egerton,  a  young  man  of  great  promise , 
and  also  his  second  wife.  Under  the  double  aifliction,  it  was  said  that 
"  the  Lord  Keeper  doth  soitow  more  than  the  wisdom  of  soe  great  a 


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man  ought  to  doe.  He  keepes  privat,  hath  desired  Judge  Gawdy  to 
sit  in  Chaucery,  and  yt  is  thought  that  he  will  not  come  abroade  this 
tearme."  (Sydney  State  Papers,  p.  301.)  However,  in  the  year  1600, 
a  few  months  afterwards,  at  the  mature  age  of  sixty,  the  handsome  lord 
keeper  Egerton  married,  for  his  third  wife,  the  accomplished  dowager 
lady  Derby,  who  at  that  time  was  noted  for  her  vivacity  and  great  per- 
sonal charms ;  although  she  was  no  longer  the  youthful  Amaryllis  of 
Spenser,  having  attained  the  age  of  44  years.  The  genial  old  chan- 
cellor did  not  think  with  his  great  contemporary  and  saturnine  friend, 
Francis  lord  Bacon,  that  it  was  "  impossible  to  love  and  be  wise,"  {Essay 
on  Love,^  but  as  the  queen's  sanction  had  not  been  secured,  the  wisdom 
of  the  step  was,  at  least,  questionable.  "  Upon  Tuesday  morning  (says 
Sir  Rowland  "WTiyte,  writing  to  Sir  Eobert  Sydney  Oct.  24,  1600),  my 
Lord  Keeper  married  the  Countess  Dowager  of  Darby,  which  is  made 
knowen  to  the  Queen,  but  how  she  takes  it  I  doe  not  heare.  Tt  is 
given  out  that  his  sonne,  Mr.  John  Egerton  shall  mari-ie  her  second 
daughter,  and  that  the  young  Lord  Hastings  shall  marry  her  third 
daughter."  Both  these  matches  took  place.  Sir  John  Harrington  of 
Eitou  wrote  an  ode  or  epigram  "  In  prayse  of  the  Countess  of  Darby, 
married  to  the  Lord  Chancellor,"  (6.  14.  Epigr.  47),  and  complimented 
the  matronly  bride  by  saying :  "  She  lived  —  ah !  too,  too  long  in 
widow's  state." 

This  noble  countess  lived  many  yeares 

With  Derby,  one  of  England's  greatest  peeres ; 

Fruitful  and  faire,  and  of  so  cleare  a  name 

That  all  this  region  marvell'd  at  her  fame. 

But  this  brave  peere  extinct  by  hasten'd  fate, 

She  lived,  ah !  too,  too  long  in  widow's  state  ; 

And  in  that  state,  took  such  sweet  state  upon  her, 

All  eares,  eyes,  tongues,  heard,  saw,  and  spoke,  her  honour. 

In  the  year  after  her  marriage  (1601),  sir  Edmund  Anderson,  the  chief 
justice,  conveyed  by  sale  Harefield  place  in  Middlesex,  three  miles  from 
tJxbridge,  "to  Sir  Thomas  Egerton,  Lord  Keeper,  to  his  wife  Alice, 
Countess  Dowager  of  Derby,  and  to  the  Ladies  Ann,  Frances  and 
Elizabeth  Stanley  her  daughters"  (Lysons'  Parishes  of  Middlesex,  pp. 
122-3),  froin  Avhich  it  appears  that  this  delightful  place  had  been  pur- 
chased by  the  Stanleys.     It  was  settled  upon  the  countess  for  her  life, 


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with  the  reversion  to  the  eldest  son  of  her  eldest  daughter,  who  ulti- 
mately succeeded  to  the  estate.  Lord  Campbell  states,  on  insufficient 
authority,  that  Harefield  was  the  property  of  lord  Ellesmere,  whose 
residence  here,  however,  only  commenced  at  the  time  of  his  third  mar- 
riage. It  was  in  the  autumn  of  1602  that  queen  Elizabeth  paid  a  three 
days'  visit  to  those  distinguished  personages,  and  here  Shakespeare's 
immortal  Othello  was  performed  for  the  first  time  before  the  queen,  and 
here  Ben  Jonson  is  said  to  have  conti'ibuted  to  her  majesty's  amusement 
by  the  production  of  a  masque,  or  at  least  a  lottery,  with  quaint  poeti- 
cal and  allegorical  devices.  (Lodge's  Illustr.,  vol.  iii.  p.  132  ;  Nichols's 
Proff.  Queen  Eliz.,  vol.  ii.  pp.  20,  21  ;  Campbell's  Lives  of  the  Ohan- 
cellors,  vol.  ii.  p.  207.) 

In  1603  the  dowager  lady  Derby  rode  on  horseback  on  king  James' 
triumphant  entry  into  London  to  take  possession  of  the  English  crown. 
(Nichols's  Prog.  James  I.  p.  174.)  In  Avigust  1607  on  visiting  her 
youngest  daughter  Elizabeth,  countess  of  Huntingdon  at  Castle  Ashby, 
a  masque,  written  by  Marston,  was  performed  in  honour  of  the  lady- 
mother,  and  was  afterwards  published  and  dedicated  to  the  countess 
dowager  of  Derby.  {Ibid.  p.  43.)  In  1609  John  Davis  of  Hereford 
addressed  a  metrical  dedication  to  the  "  well  accomplished  Lady  Alice 
Countess  of  Derby,  and  her  three  right  noble  daughters,  by  birth 
nature  and  education,"  of  his  poem  called  "  The  Holy  Roode,  or  Christ's 
Crosse,  containing  Christ  Crucified,  described  in  speaking  picture."  4to, 
pp.  80.  The  same  writer  in  his  Jtficro cosmos,  4to,  1603,  pp.  300,  cele- 
brates in  his  preface,  amongst  other  distinguished  characters, 

Egerton  famouzed 

For  love  to  equity ;  chief  justice  of  tlie  land ; 

and  Edward  Bulkley,  D.D.,  rector  of  Odell  in  Bedfordshii-e,  dedi- 
cated his  Apologie  for  Religion,  4to,  pp.  176,  1602,  "to  the  right 
hon.  sir  Thomas  Egerton,  knt.,  lord  keeper,  chamberlain  of  the  county 
palatine  of  Chester,"  and  therein  states  "that  as  his  book  was 
written  for  the  good  of  Grod's  Church,  so  he  had  been  encouraged  to 
ofier  and  present  it  to  the  Lord  Keeper  as  a  true  testimony  of  a  loving 
heart,  and  of  dutiful  afiection  towards  his  honour."  Eobert  Hill,  B.D., 
lecturer  of  St.  Martin's-in-the-Eields,  and  rector  of  St.  Margaret's,  Fri- 
day street,  London,  in  his  Pathioay  to  Prayer  and  Piety,  i2mo,  1609, 
pp.  432,  3rd  ed.,  dedicated  to  Thomas  lord  chancellor  Ellesmere,  des- 


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cribes  his  patron,  in  a  well  written  "  Epistle  Dedicatorie,"  as  "  a  trustie 
counseUour  to  our  gracious  King,  an  vpriglit  Judge  to  our  Christian 
people,  and  a  good  Patron  to  the  despised  Clergic,"  subscribing  him- 
selfo  "from  your  Parish  of  St.  Martin-in-the-Pields  November  17th 
1608."  Lord  Ellesmere  was  honourably  distinguished  for  his  support 
of  the  English  church  and  clergy,  and  seems  to  have  had  more  books 
dedicated  to  him  than  any  of  his  contemporaries.  In  disposing  of  his 
patronage,  one  of  the  clergy  stated  "  Tour  Honour  will  not  give  to  that 
Jacob  bleare-eyed  Leah,  who  hath  served  many  a  year  for  fair  Eachel. 
Tou  will  not  make  him  a  Shepheard  of  men's  soules  who  is  rather  fit 
to  be  a  shepheard  of  men's  sheepe.  "What  good  you  have  done  to  this 
Church  of  ours  let  Churchmen  judge.  Tou  love  our  nation.  Tou 
have  rebuilt  for  us  many  decaied  Synagogues,  and  put  many  poore 
Preachers  into  the  pool  of  Bethesda,  who  have  bin  thus  cured  of  their 
lono-  disease  of  Povertie  without  the  descending  of  any  one  Angel." 
On  15th  March  16 17  full  of  years  and  honour  the  lord  chancellor 
expired  in  London,  and  was  buried  at  Doddlestone  in  Cheshire,  his 
widow  continuing  to  live  after  his  death  at  Harefield  place ;  and  it  was 
here,  that  about  the  year  1635  Milton's  beautiful  pastoral.  Arcades, 
was  written  in  compliment,  and  presented  to  the  same  countess  dowa- 
ger, in  her  second  widowhood,  by  some  of  her  grandchildren.  In  this 
scenic  representation  the  great  poet,  who  resided  at  that  time  with  his 
father  at  Horton  adjacent  to  Harefield,  complimented  the  lord  chan- 
cellor's widow  in  these  glowing  strains : 

Here  you  shall  have  greater  grace 
To  sei*ve  the  Lady  of  this  place ; 

Such  a  rural  Queen 
AH  Arcadia  hath  not  seen. 

Milton's  connection  with  this  cultivated  and  intellectual  family  also 
led  to  the  composition  of  the  delightful  masque  of  Conius. 

The  countess  dowager  of  Derby,  like  both  her  husbands,  was  the 
patron  of  some  of  the  most  celebrated  writers  and  poets  of  the  Eliza- 
bethan and  Jacobean  period,  as  Mr.  Heywood  has  shewn  in  his  inte- 
resting volume  on  the  subject,  to  which,  it  will  be  seen,  an  addition  of 
several  names  may  be  made. 

The  countess  died  at  Harefield  place  on  the  23rd  and  was  buried 
on  the  28th  January  1636-7,  aged  about  81  years,  and  was  buried  in 


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the  church  of  the  B.  V.  Mary,  having  survived  her  first  husband  nearly 
43  years.  Her  monument  is  engraved  by  Lysons.  Her  son-in-law 
lord  Chandos  succeeded  her  at  Harefield,  pursuant  to  the  deed  of 
purchase  in  1601.  Her  portrait  at  KJnowsley  on  panel  represents 
her  as  a  very  handsome  woman  with  chestnut-coloured  hair,  small 
black  head  dress,  large  Elizabethan  ruff,  sleeves  and  stomacher,  covered 
with  lace.  She  holds  a  feather  fan  in  her  left  hand.  On  the  canvas 
is  painted  "Anno  1598  set.  suae  42,"  This  fine  picture  has  never  been 
engraved,  although  Lysons  refers  to  a  very  rare  engraved  portrait  of 
this  countess,  without  the  engraver's  name.  It  may  be  added,  that  the 
quarterings  borne  by  Ferdinando  earl  of  Derby  on  his  shield,  and 
allowed  by  the  heralds  in  1594,  were  as  follows:  i.  Stanley;  2.  La- 
tham; 3.  Man;  4.  Warren;  5.  Strange;  6.  Woodvile ;  7.  Mohun; 
8.  Montalt;  9.  Brandon;  10.  Bruin;   11.  Rokeby;   12.  Stanley.    B.] 


GEORGE  CLARKE,  1637. 

Original  Funeral  Certificates  of  the  North  in  Coll.  Arms. 

MR.  George  Clarke  of  Manchester  in  the  County  of  Lancaster 
Haberdasher  departed  this  mortal!  life  at  his  house  in  Man- 
chester  aforsayd  upon  the day  of  October   1637,  and  was 

interred  in  Manchester  church. 

The  sayd  defunctem  married daughter  to  Edmund  Gee  of 

Manchester  aforsayd  by  whom  he  had  no  yssue,  leaving  his  estate 
vnto  diuers  pious  vses. 

This  certificate  was  taken  at  Manchester  upon  the  28  day  of 
January  1637  [-8]  by  Randle  Holme  of  the  City  of  Chester  deputy 
to  the  office  of  Armes  and  testified  vnder  the  hand 

There  is  no  pedigree  of  George  Clarke  ia  the  Visitations  of  Lanca- 
shire, nor  of  the  family  of  Gee  with  whom  he  intermarried.  In  the 
margin  of  his  funeral  certificate  it  is  stated  "  noe  Armes  pved."  Puller, 
in  his  Worthies,  mentions  him  as  being  an  "Haberdasher,  a  plain, 


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honest  man,  just,  temperate,  and  frugal ;  and  according  to  his  under- 
standing (which  in  the  world's  esteem  was  not  great)  devout,  a  daily 
frequenter  of  the  Prayers  in  the  Colledge  Church,  and  the  hearer  of 
Sermons  there.  Not  long  before  the  breaking  forth  of  our  Civil  dis- 
seusious,  dying  without  issue,  he  made  the  poor  hia  heir,  and  did  give 
them  one  hundred  pounds  per  annum,  in  good  lands  lying  in  a  place 
called  Crompsall,  within  a  mile  of  Manchester.  I  have  not  yet  ob- 
tained the  certain  date  of  his  death."  (Vol.  ii.  p.  214,  ed.  Dr.  Nuttall, 
1840.)  The  benefaction  is  recorded  in  the  Report  of  the  Commis- 
sioners on  Charities,  vol.  xvi.  p.  138.    K. 

[On  the  13th  December,  1636,  Mr.  Clarke  settled  by  indenture  of 
feoffment  of  this  date,  made  between  himself  (described  as  Greorge 
Clarke  of  Manchester,  haberdasher)  of  the  one  part,  and  Humphrey 
Chetham  of  Clayton,  esq.,  Nicholas  Mosley  of  Ancoates,  esq.,  Eichard 
Eadcliffe,  gent,  (son  and  heir-apparent  of  William  Eadcliife  of  Man- 
chester, esq.),  Samuel  Tippiuge  of  Manchester,  gent.,  Francis  Mosley 
of  the  same,  gent.,  Heniy  Johnson  the  elder,  mercer,  John  Hartley, 
draper,  John  Graskell,  draper,  William  Eadley,  gent.,  Ealph  Worsley 
of  Piatt- withiu-Eusholme,  gent.,  John  Marler,  gent.,  Eichard  Lomax, 
clothier,  Thomas  Keley,  chapman,  and  John  G-riffin,  chapman  (all  of 
Manchester),  of  the  other  part,  whereby  certain  messuages  and  lands 
in  Manchester,  Crump  sail,  and  Tetlow,  in  the  county  of  Lancaster, 
(subject  to  two  yearly  chief  rents  of  205.  and  2s.,  so  settled  by  Walter 
Nugent  and  Margaret  his  mother,  for  the  use  of  the  poor,  in  1609,) 
were  conveyed  to  the  trustees  to  hold  for  the  use  of  the  said  George  Clarke 
during  his  natural  life,  and  from  and  immediately  after  his  death  then 
to  hold  for  the  use  as  to  one  full  moiety  to  Alice,  then  wife  of  the  said 
George  Clarke,  for  her  life  in  satisfaction  of  dower,  and  from  and  after 
the  death  of  the  said  Alice,  to  hold  the  whole  of  the  messuages,  lands, 
and  premises  to  the  use  of  the  said  trustees,  who  should  yearly,  for 
ever,  receive  and  faithfully  dispose  of  the  rents  and  issues  towards  the 
relief  of  such  poor,  aged,  needy,  or  impotent  people  who  should  live 
within  the  town  of  Manchester,  aided  by  the  judgment  and  discretion 
of  the  boroughreeve  and  the  two  constables  of  Manchester,  taking  unto 
them  as  an  assistant,  yearly  for  ever,  one  of  the  churchwardens  of  the 
said  parish  who  should  happen  to  live  in  the  town.  The  trustees  to  let 
the  messuages  and  lands  to  the  best  advantage,  year  by  year,  and  to 


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IS 


pay  the  rents  to  the  said  boroughreeve,  two  constables,  and  church- 
warden on  the  feast  of  St.  James  the  Apostle,  and  the  purification  of 
the  blessed  Virgin  Maiy,  to  be  by  them  distributed,  according  to  their 
discretion,  to  the  poor  as  aforesaid,  to  commence  from  and  after  the 
first  year  next  ensuing  the  death  of  the  said  G-eorge  Clarke,  and  bo 
from  year  to  year  for  ever.  He  appointed  John  Dawson,  gent.,  and 
Grerard  Simpkin  of  Manchester  to  give  seizin  of  the  premises  to  the 
trustees,  also  provided  for  the  continuation  of  the  trust,  and  appointed 
that  the  accounts  should  be  yearly  audited  at  the  Michaelmas  court  leet 
of  the  manor  of  Manchester.  His  friends  present  at  the  execution  of 
this  deed  were  Thomas  Johnson,  James  Lightboune,  Richard  Lomax, 
JLin.,  and  Greorge  Pendleton.    {Lane.  Charit.,  Chetham  Libr.) 

The  commissioners  for  charitable  uses,  in  pursuance  of  an  inquisition 
taken  at  Wigan  5th  March,  1683-4,  before  William  Daniell,  esq.,  Peter 
Adlington,  esq.,  Samuel  Andrewes,  and  "William  Patten,  gent.,  and 
confirmed,  on  the  motion  of  Mr.  Yates,  counsel  for  the  inhabitants  of 
Manchester  and  the  feoifees,  obtained  a  decree  of  the  court  of  chancery 
of  the  county  palatine  of  Lancaster,  dated  i6th  July,  1684,  and  signed 
by  sir  John  Otway  (vice-chancellor  of  the  Duchy),  whereby  it  was 
ordered  that  the  then  trustees,  John  Johnson,  gent.,  Michael  Dickin- 
son, gent.,  Oswald  Mosley,  esq.,  John  Hartley,  esq.,  Thomas  Lanca- 
shire, gent.,  Richard  Fox,  gent.,  Samuel  Dicconson,  gent.,  and  Edward 
Bootle,  gent.,  and  their  successors  should  have  power  to  dispose,  by 
lease,  of  the  said  premises  for  twenty-one  years  and  no  louger,  without 
fine,  but  upon  an  improved  yearly  rent.  It  appeared  that  the  farmers 
having  so  short  a  term  in  the  lands,  were  unwilling  to  improve  the 
same,  and  that  consequently  the  estate  had  grown  barren  and  ruinous, 
and  the  poor  did  not  receive  the  maintenance  intended  by  their  bene- 
factor.  (Hid.) 

Jn  1795  an  act  of  parliament  confirmed  and  enlarged  the  powers  of 
the  trustees,  and  enabled  them  to  let  lands  for  building  and  other  pur- 
poses. In  1806  another  act  of  parliament  was  obtained,  whereby  it 
was  enacted  that  the  trustees  should  have  power  absolutely  to  grant 
the  lands  in  Crumpsall  and  Tetlow  in  fee  or  to  lease  the  same  for  lives 
or  years.  In  1824  John  Birch,  esq.,  James  Touchet,  and  James  Bayley 
of  Manchester,  merchants,  the  surviving  trustees,  conveyed  to  the  use 
of  themselves  and  of  John  Touchet  of  Manchester,  merchant,  Shakes- 


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pear  Phillips  of  Barlow  hall,  esq.,  the  rev.  John  Clowes  of  Broughton 
hall,  one  of  the  fellows  of  the  collegiate  church,  Edward  Loyd  of  Man- 
chester, banker,  Edward  Jeremiah  Lloyd  of  Manchester,  barrister-at-law, 
Thomas  Hey  wood  of  Salford,  banker,  and  Samuel  Bayley,  JohnBradshaw, 
Gilbert  "Winter,  Jeremiah  Yielding,  and  Hugh  Hornby  Birley,  all  of 
Manchester,  merchants,  and  their  heirs,  all  the  then  remaining  residue 
of  the  said  trust  estate.  The  income  of  the  charity  amounted,  in  1636, 
to  about  looZ.  per  annum,  and  in  1826,  to  more  than  i,2ooZ.  per 
annum,  and  its  receipts  have  probably  since  increased. 

It  is  almost  a  matter  of  wonder  how  Mr.  Clarke  should  have  been 
daily  a  devout  frequenter  of  the  prayers  in  the  collegiate  church,  and  a 
profitable  hearer  of  sermons  there,  when  the  rejection  of  church  prin- 
ciples, the  sacrilegious  neglect  of  the  fabric,  and  the  disorderly  conduct 
of  the  clergy  during  the  first  half  of  the  seventeenth  century  are  consi- 
dered. Anything  more  disastrous  than  the  state  of  the  college,  its 
services,  and  clergy,  could  not  be  conceived.  Two  things  appear  to 
have  been  entirely  overlooked  by  these  puritanical  ecclesiastics  —  the 
spiritual  welfare  of  the  laity  and  the  prosperity  of  the  corporation. 
They  had  neither  the  wisdom  to  rule,  nor  the  prudence  to  reform,  the 
church.  Erom  the  visitations  of  the  bishops  and  their  ofiicials  we  dis- 
cover an  unwritten  chapter  on  the  state  of  the  church  in  Manchester, 
at  least  during  George  Clarke's  lifetime,  and  there  is  more  than  con- 
jectui-al  proof  that  he  was  in  every  respect  the  "  worthy  "  Churchman, 
which  Mr.  Richard  Johnson,  the  regular  and  orthodox  fellow  of  the 
college,  who  personally  knew  him,  so  felicitously  described  him  to 
Dr.  Euller.  In  1604  Dr.  John  Dee,  the  warden,  was  reported  to 
the  bishop  as  being  "noe  Preacher,"  which  may  either  convey  the 
meaning  that  he  did  not  preach  at  all,  being  sometimes  styled  "es- 
quire," or  that  he  was  not  an  eloquent  man  in  the  pulpit,  or  what 
is  more  probable,  did  not  come  up  to  the  Puritan  standard.  The 
learned  doctor's  quarrels  and  squabbles  with  the  members  of  the 
chapter  were  a  source  of  public  scandal.  (See  his  Diary,  p.  63.) 
In  the  same  year  (1604)  Mr.  Ealph  Kyrke,  one  of  the  chaplains, 
had  numerous  and  specific  articles  exhibited  against  him  before  Lloyd, 
bishop  of  Chester,  by  the  parishioners  of  Manchester.  Amongst  other 
gx'ave  charges,  the  visitor  of  the  college  was  informed  that  Kyrke 
"  omitted  dyvers  Praiers  att  Service  commanded  by  the  Book  of  Com- 


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mon  Praier,  and  devysed  prayers  on  his  ownheade;"  also  "in Baptism 
he  dyd  not  observe  the  book  of  common  praier  by  signing  with  the  sign 
of  the  cross,  and  if  anie  of  the  parties  that  came  with  the  Chyld  to  be 
baptised  or  any  other  dyd  request  him  to  make  the  sign  of  the  Crosse, 
he  asked  them  whether  they  would  have  a  Black,  a  Eedd,  a  Blewe,  or 
a  Headlesse  Crosse,  and  such  other  contemptible  words;"  also  "he 
Chrystened  chyldren  without  Godfathers  or  Grodmothers,  or  the  use  of 
the  surplice,  which  hee  preacheth  is  but  "  a  ragg  of  the  Pope  and  a 
mightie  heresie  in  the  Church,"  and  that  "he  that  mayntayned  yt  could 
not  be  saved;"  also  that  "he  would  not  allow  divers  of  the  Parishioners 
who  had  helped  the  Parish  Clerk  to  read  verse  for  verse  with  the 
Curate  for  fourtie  years  last  paste  and  more,  in  the  Morning  Service, 
so  to  do,  but  openly  commanded  them  to  hold  their  peace."  In  July 
of  the  following  year  Mr.  Kyrke,  his  wife,  and  three  children  were 
swept  away  by  "the  Plague."  {Lane.  MSS.,  vol.  xxii.  pp.  122-4.)  In 
1607  Mr.  Oliver  Carter,  B.D.,  one  of  the  fellows,  a  learned  man,  an 
acute  theologian,  and  a  favourite  preacher,  was  nevertheless  accused  to 
the  bishop  of  being  "  a  common  Sollicitor  in  temporall  causes."  (Ibid., 
p.  132.)  In  1608,  October  11,  Dr.  Dee  was  accused  of  "not  keeping  the 
Chancel  in  sufficient  repaire,"  nor  "  the  body  of  the  Church,"  and  Mr. 
Bourne,  another  fellow,  and  Mr.  Learoyde,  a  chaplain,  "for  adminis- 
tering the  Communion  to  dyvers  persons  sittinge."  (Ibid.,  p.  186.)  A 
little  before  this  time  Greorge  Dutton,  schoolmaster  of  Trafford,  had 
preached  in  Manchester  church,  "  being  an  Excommunicated  person," 
and  Mr.  John  Buckley,  chaplain,  a  popular  preacher  and  a  man  of  con- 
siderable influence,  had  suffered  him  so  to  preach,  whilst  Mr.  Eobert 
Barber,  clerk,  "  could  not  reade  the  Prayers  distinctlye."  In  1609  the 
bishop  of  Chester  enjoined  Mr.  "W.  Bourne,  B.D.,  the  fellow  above 
named,  "  not  to  administer  the  Sacrament  unlesse  in  his  Surplice  stob 
poena  juris.''  (Ibid.,  p.  126.)  It  had  been  proved  before  the  archbishop 
of  York,  in  1595,  that  none  of  the  fellows,  ministers  or  choristers,  "  doe 
weare  Surplices  in  tymes  of  Praier  and  ministration  of  the  Sacrament," 
and  that  many  of  the  parishioners  thought  the  proceeding  both  "unde- 
cent  and  offensive  in  such  a  great  Collegiate  Church."  (Ibid.,  p.  132.) 
It  was  again  shewn  at  a  visitation,  in  161 1,  that  Mr.  Bourne,  the  fellow, 
did  "  not  weare  the  Surplice  and  Hood,  nor  had  he  read  divine  service 
in  the  church  of  Manchester  siace  25th  September,  1608,  nor  adminis- 


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tered  either  of  the  Sacraments  these  viii.  monthes."  (Thid.)  In  1622, 
through  the  default  of  Dr.  Murray,  the  warden,  "the  roof  of  the  Quier 
was  farre  out  of  repayro  and  in  greate  danger  of  fallinge."  Mr.  Bourne 
and  jMr.  Baker,  two  of  the  fellows,  still  refused  to  wear  the  surplice, 
whilst  Mr.  Tacey  and  Mr.  Learoyde,  the  chaplains,  daily  violated  the 
rubrics  and  scornfully  refused  to  read  tlie  canons.  (Ibid.,  p.  188.)  In 
1630  and  1633  Dr.  Murray,  the  warden,  Mr.  Bourne,  and  Mr.  Daniel 
Baker  were  again  prosecuted  for  divers  violations  of  the  ordinances  of 
the  church  and  of  the  collegiate  charter.  In  the  latter  year  Bourne 
was  suspended,  and  in  1635  the  warden  was  also  suspended,  and  subse- 
sequently  deprived.  The  funds  of  the  corporation  were  badly  adminis- 
tered, the  building  ruinous,  and  all  the  clergy,  with  the  exception  of 
Mr.  Eichard  Johnson,  irregular  and  self-willed.  They  determined  to 
be  fettered  by  no  rules  and  to  submit  to  no  recognized  authority,  not- 
withstanding their  obligation  of  canonical  obedience.  (Ibid.,  p.  134.) 
Amongst  the  numerous  and  various  presentments  of  the  parishioners 
for  breaches  of  church  order  and  good  morals,  the  name  of  Greorge 
Clarke  never  occurs  ;  but  he  had  doubtless  heard  of  "  the  wyfe  of  the 
Deauesgate,"  in  1590,  calling  one  of  the  churchwardens  "a  pratiuge  jac- 
key,"  and  saying  "  she  would  talke  and  aske  him  noe  leave,"  when  he 
reproved  her  "for  talking  in  Service  tyme;"  and  he  knew  "Richard 
Browne  of  Manchester,  cobler,  who  was  vehementlie  suspected  to  have 
twoe  wives,  and  to  be  of  that  secte  of  the  famelie  of  Love."  He  also 
would  know  Edward  Pycroft,  a  stout  maintainer  of  the  "  olde  wayes," 
who  went  out  of  Manchester  church  at  service  time,  in  September,  1608, 
and  being  admonished  to  return  again,  refused,  "  alleging,  he  would  not 
heare  Mr.  Bourne,"  the  friend  of  John  Knox.  (Ibid.,  p.  186.)  A-nd,  as 
Greorge  Clarke  was  a  churchwarden,  he  had  doubtless  reproved  "  Robert 
Leach  and  several  others,  who  on  the  13th  August  1622  joyned  w"" 
those  y'  began  to  Singe  the  Psalm  before  the  Oi'ganes  played,  and 
singing  in  a  contrarie  tune  to  the  Organes,  caused  confusion  in  the 
Church,"  so  that  the  Parishioners  complained  at  the  chancellor's  visita- 
tion, and  also  at  the  same  time  brought  up  Thomas  Robinson,  "who 
sayd  that  Raphe  Lownde  was  damned  for  blowing  the  organes,"  in 
Manchester  church.  (Ibid.,  p.  188.)  And  he  had  probably  heard  of 
"Margaret  Hey  presented  to  the  Court  for  sleeping  in  the  Church 
att  praier  and  sermon," — of  Margaret  Otwise  "for  dyppynge  a  chyld 


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79 


in  the  Ponte  after  itt  was  baptized," — of  Thomas  Groulden,  who 
"buryed  his  chyld  without  tlie  Minister,"  and  of  John  Thompson 
"for  dytchinge  upon  St.  Michael's  daye."  (Ihid.,  p.  196.)  And  not- 
withstanding all  these  scandals,  George  Clarke  was  "  a  daily  frequenter 
of  prayers  and  a  hearer  of  sermons,"  although  he  did  not  appoint  any 
of  the  clergy  the  trustees  of  his  charity  to  the  poor ;  but  a  couple  of 
years  before  his  death,  the  miserable  feuds  and  discords  of  half  a  century 
were  quelled  for  a  season,  first  by  the  dissolution  and  then  by  the  re-found- 
ing of  the  college.  There  was,  however,  no  disendowment,  confiscation 
or  spoliation.  The  spiritual  welfare  of  the  parishioners  was  secured,  the 
tenure  of  the  endowment  regulated,  and  the  rights  of  the  clergy  and 
their  life  interests  confirmed.  A  new  charter,  granted  by  the  king, 
was  obtained  by  archbishop  Laud,  who  surmounted  many  difliculties, 
and  accomplished  the  arduous  undertaking  at  the  instigation  of  the 
rev.  Kichard  Johnson,  supported  by  the  wisdom  and  pecuniary  libe- 
rality of  Humphrey  Chetham,  esq.,  neither  of  them  half-hearted  men, 
but  both  of  them  influenced  by  George  Clarke's  benevolent  spirit,  and, 
like  him,  "just,  temperate,  and  frugal,"  and  always  devout  and  consis- 
tent members  of  the  English  church.  Their  constant  prayer  for  Man- 
chester church  —  "Destroy  it  not;  for  a  blessing  is  in  it"  —  was 
ultimately  heard,  and  prevailed. 

Little  is  known  of  George  Clarke's  family.    His  marriage  with , 

daughter  of  Edmund  Gee,  gent.,  connected  him  with  the  Chethams  and 
Mosleys,  Pendletons  and  Worsleys,  Tippings  and  Marlers,  all  at  that 
time  largely  engaged  in  merchandise  and  commerce,  and  the  heads  of 
the  principal  families  in  Manchester.  In  1625  Mr.  George  Clarke  was 
the  senior  constable,  and  in  1629  the  boroughreeve  of  the  town.  He 
also  occurs  as  a  juror  of  the  court  leet  of  the  manor  (^Manchester  Court 
Leet  Records,  pp.  172,  177),  so  that  he  filled  the  highest  and  most 
responsible  civic  ofiices  of  the  town  in  which  he  dwelt.  His  wife's 
relations  were  of  good  position,  and  wealthy.  Three  brothers  of  her 
family  were  well  beneficed  in  the  Church,  and  it  was  remembered  long 
after  the  event,  that  they  had  all  preached  in  Manchester  on  the  same 
day.  {Newcome''s  Autohiog.,  vol.  i.,  p.  90,)  Mr.  George  Clarke  had 
been,  like  his  personal  friend  and  neighbour  Humphrey  Chetham,  an 
industrious  and  provident  man,  who,  by  attending  to  his  business  had 
acquired  a  moderate  competency,  and  having  no  children,  devoted  it  to 


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benevolent  purposes.  The  world,  it  may  be,  judged  him  harshly,  and 
perhaps  posterity  would  have  judged  him  more  favourably  had  he  made 
a  more  liberal  provision  for  his  widow.  There  seems  to  have  been  no 
mortuary  monument  to  his  memory  on  the  walls  of  the  church,  but 
a  small  and  humble  memorial  grave  stone,  once  forming  part  of  the 
pavement,  was  fouud  a  few  years  ago,  during  some  excavations,  by  Mr. 
John  Owen  of  Manchester,  a  diligent  antiquary,  outside  the  entrance 
of  the  south  porch,  and  near  the  south-western  angle  of  St.  G-eorge's 
chapel ;  but  it  has  now  disappeared.  The  following  is  the  fragmentary 
inscription ;  the  lettering  defaced,  the  date  gone,  and  the  whole  nearly 
illegible : 

here:  LIET 
the: body: 
QE0RGE:CL 
KE:WH0:  D 
TED:0VT: 
THIS:WOR 
THE:TWE 
FIRST:D 

The  name  of  his  widow  was  not  recorded,  and  their  surviving  friends 
appear  to  have  studied  economy  in  their  sepulchral  record.  In  the 
Begister  Booh  of  Burials  is  this  brief  entry :  "  Mr.  George  Clarke  of 
Manchester,  OctoV  24  1637."     JB.] 


LADY  DOROTHY  LEIGH,  1639. 
Original  Funeral  Certificates  of  the  NortTi  in  Coll.  Arms,  No.  61. 

THE  Lady  Dorothy  Leigh  dyed  at  Worsley  in  the  county  of 
Lancaster  vpon  the  \^^  day  Aprill  1639  and  was  interred  in 
Eccles  church  in  the  sayd  county. 

Shea  was  daughter  to  S""  Richard  Egerton  of  Ridley  in  the 
county  of  Chester  K*  and  did  marry  tow  husbands  :  first  she  mar- 
ried Richard  Brereton  of  Tatton  in  the  County  of  Chester  Esquier 


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and  by  him  had  yssue  Eichard  who  dyed  yonge :  To  her  second 

husband  she  married  S'  Peter  Leigh  of  Lyme  in  the  sayd  county 

knight  but  by  him  she  had  noe  yssue. 

This  Certyficate  was  taken  at  Worsley  aforesayd  vpon  the  14th 

day  of  Aprell  1639  by  Randle  Holme  of  the  Citty  of  Chester  gent. 

deputy  to  the  office  of  Armes  and  was  certyfied  under  the  hand  of 

Peter  Egerton  of  Shaw  in  the  County  of  Lancaster  Esq'"  nephew 

and  one  of  the  Executors  to  the  defuncte. 

Peter  Egerton. 

A  pedigree  of  Egerton  of  Ridley  may  be  found  in  Ormerod's  Che- 
shire, vol.  ii.  p.  162,  by  which  it  appears  that  she  married  Eichard 
Brereton  of  Tatton,  28th  April  1572  ;  and  in  the  same  work  is  a  pedi- 
gree of  Legh  of  Lyme,  where  her  marriage  with  sir  Peter  Legh  is  also 
mentioned,  but  it  is  not  given  in  the  pedigree  of  Legh  entered  at  the 
Visitation  of  1664. 

The  Egertons  of  Eidley  descended  from  Philip  Egerton  of  Egerton, 
who  married  Margery,  daughter  of  William  Mainwaringe  of  Ightfeld, 
whose  descendants  were  registered  at  the  Visitation  of  Cheshire,  1580. 
K. 

[The  will,  codicil,  and  inventory  of  dame  Dorothy  Legh  of  Worsley 
are  amongst  the  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Wills,  3rd  portion,  pp.  201-12, 
Chet.  Ser.  The  will  is  full  of  interesting  domestic  and  family  informa- 
tion. Eichard  Brereton,  esq.,  of  TVorsley  and  Tatton,  the  first  husband 
of  this  lady,  having  lost  his  only  child  in  1575,  and  dying  himself  on  the 
17th  December,  1598,  settled  his  large  estates  on  his  wife's  illegitimate 
brother,  sir  Thomas  Egerton,  afterwards  the  lord  chancellor  Ellesmere, 
and  ancestor  of  the  earls  and  dukes  of  Bridgewater ;  but  a  caveat  was 
entered  at  York,  22nd  December,  1598,  against  the  probate  of  INL*. 
Brereton's  will,  and  some  htigation  followed,  but  the  devise  was 
established  {Lane.  MSS.,  vol.  xxvii.,  p.  21),  and  the  estates  are  now 
held  by  the  noble  representative  of  the  Egertons,  the  earl  of  Ellesmere. 
Lady  Legh  appears  to  have  adopted  Thomas,  the  younger  grandson  of 
the  lord  chancellor.  She  erected  a  large  table  tomb  with  whole-length 
recumbent  figures  of  her  first  husband  and  herself,  in  the  year  1600, 
and  the  same  still  remains  in  the  Worsley  chapel,  within  Eccles  church, 
where  she  was  buried  on  the  nth  April,  1639.     i?.] 

M 


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SIR  GILBERT  IRELAND,  1675. 
Original  Funeral  Certificates  of  the  North  in  Coll.  Arms,  -ZVb.55. 

SIR  Gilbert  Ireland  of  the  Hutt  in  the  County  palatine  of  Lan- 
caster K*:  one  of  the  deputy  Leiut:  for  the  said  county  dyed 
at  Bewsey  neere  Warringto:  the  30th  of  Aprill  Ano  1675  and  was 
buried  at  Hale  in  the  said  county  of  Lancaster. 

The  said  S''  Gilbert  Ireland  married  Margaret  the  onely  daugh- 
ter and  heire  of  Thomas  Ireland  of  Bewsey  in  the  county  Palatine 
of  Lancaster  Esq"^  but  died  without  any  issue,  she  surviving  him. 

This  certificate  was  taken  by  Raudle  Holme  of  the  Citty  of 
Chester  gent:  under  the  hand  of  the  Lady  Ireland,  Relict  of  the 
defuucte. 

Margaret  Ireland. 


DAME  Margarett  Ireland  the  Relict  of  S"-  Gilbert  Ireland  of 
Hutt  and  Bewsey  in  the  county  of  Lancaster  K*  died  at 
Bewsey  y®  first  of  July  Ano  1675  and  was  Buryed  at  Hale  in  the 
County  of  Lancaster.  She  was  the  onely  daughter  and  heire  of 
Thomas  Ireland  of  Bewsey  Esq' :  she  died  without  issue. 

This  certificate  was  taken  by  Randle  Holme  of  the  citty  of 
Chester  gent:  under  the  hand  of  Thomas  Cooke  gent:  one  of  the 
Executes  of  the  said  Lady  Ireland. 

Thos:  Cooke. 

The  pedigree  of  Ireland  was  recorded  at  the  visitation  of  co.  Lancas- 
ter in  1665,  by  sir  Gilbert  Irelaud,  who  was  then  aged  41,  deducing  his 
descent  from  Thomas  Ireland  of  the  Hutt  and  Hale,  co.  Lancaster,  who 
married  Margaret,  daughter  of  sir  Richard  Bold  of  Bold,  knt.  Sir 
Gilbert  is  described  of  Hutt,  Hale  and  Bewsey,  and  married  as  above 
stated.    His  sister  Eleanor,  became  one  of  his  coheirs,  and  was  married 


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at  Ormskirk  to  Edward  Aspinwall  of  Aspinwall,  near  Ormskirk,  by 
whom  she  had  issue.  John  Blackburne  of  Orford,  F.E.S.  and  M.P.  for 
CO.  Lancaster,  one  of  her  descendants  and  representatives,  recorded  his 
pedigree  in  1804.  The  family  is  now  represented  by  John  Ireland 
Blackburne  of  Hale,  esq.  There  are  pedigrees  of  the  Irelands  of  the 
Hutt,  and  also  of  Lydiate,  in  Gregson's  Fragments  of  Lane.     K. 

[Sir  Grilbert  Ireland,  sou  and  heir  of  John  Ireland  of  Hutt  and  Hale, 
esq.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  sir  Thomas  Hayes,  knt.,  lord 
mayor  of  London,  was  born  on  the  8th  April,  1624,  His  father  died  in 
the  3rd  year  of  Charles  I.,  1628,  and  his  grandfather,  sir  Grilbert  Ire- 
land, on  the  8th  April,  1626,  on  the  day  when  his  future  representative 
and  namesake  had  attained  his  second  year.  The  grandfather  was 
knighted  by  the  king  at  Lathom  house  in  161 7,  and  was  high  sheriff  of 
the  county  in  1622.  His  will  is  dated  30th  January,  1625-6.  {lianc. 
MSS.,  vol.  xxvii.,  p.  139.) 

Gilbert  Ireland  married  Margaret,  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Thomas  Ireland  of  Bewsey,  esq.  (see  ante,  p.  49),  when  the  large 
estates  of  the  two  sons  of  sir  John  Ireland  of  Hutt  and  Hale,  living 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  fifteenth  century,  became  again  united,  by 
virtue  of  a  settlement  made  by  Mr.  Ireland  of  Bewsey,  in  the  year 
1637.     Gilbert  Ireland  was  high  sheriff  of  the  county  in  1648. 

During  the  commonwealth  he  espoused  the  popular  cau.se,  and  Crom- 
well made  him  governor  of  Chester.  In  1654  he  was  returned  as  one  of 
the  four  members  for  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and  in  1656  filled  the 
same  office,  being  described  at  that  time  as  "  Colonel  Gilbert  Ireland." 
(Baines'  Hist.,  vol.  i.,  p.  319.)  He  assisted  Charles,  earl  of  Derby,  in 
his  petition  to  the  house  for  redress  (Moore  Rental,  p.  139,  App.  Chet. 
See.),  and  in  1658-9  sat  in  Eichard  Cromwell's  parliament  as  burgess 
for  Liverpool.  He  was  one  of  that  numerous  class  of  presbyterians 
who,  after  diligently  achieving  the  overthrow  of  Charles  the  First,  occu- 
pied themselves  in  restoring  his  son.  (^Norris  Paper's,  p.  20.)  As  a 
reward  for  his  loyalty  or  subserviency  he  received  the  honour  of  knight- 
hood in  the  year  1660,  and,  after  the  restoration,  seems  to  have  enjoyed 
the  political  interest  and  support  of  Charles,  earl  of  Derby.  He  was 
appointed  one  of  the  earl's  deputy-lieutenants  in  1665  {Lane. 
MSS.,  vol.  xi.),  and  was  also  in  the  commission  of  the  peace  for  the 
county.     In  the  year  1660  he  was  returned  to  the  new  parliament  for 


84  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

Liverpool,  along  with  the  hon.  William  Stanley.  A  dissolution  taking 
place  sliortly  afterwards,  he  was  again  returned  for  the  same  borough, 
in  the  Stanley  interest,  in  the  following  year,  and  retained  his  seat  until 
his  death,  which  Mr.  Thomas  Heywood,  on  the  authority  of  Baincs  (vol. 
iv.,  p.  147),  erroneously  says,  occurred  in  the  year  1678.  {Norris  Papers, 
p.  20.)  Grregson  observes  that  sir  Gilbert  impoverished  himself  by  his 
Liverpool  elections.  {Fragmts.,  p.  102.)  In  1665,  in  accordance  with  his 
altered  principles,  he  certified  to  Dugdale,  with  the  leaders  of  the  royalist 
party,  that  Theophilus  Howarth  of  Howarth,  esq.,  in  the  parish  of  Eoch- 
dale,  "  had,  with  great  courage,  fidelity,  and  constancy,  adhered  to  his 
most  illustrious,  serene,  and  sacred  Majesty  King  Charles  the  first,  of  late 
and  blessed  memory,  and  for  his  loyalty  had  been  a  great  suff'erer  both  in 
estate  and  person,  and  had  been  serviceable  to  his  then  Majesty's  faithful 
friends  and  subjects  in  these  late  disloyal  and  unhappy  times,"  which  led 
to  an  allusive  augmentation  of  the  armorial  bearings  of  the  said  Howarth, 
who  would  hardly  have  applied  to  sir  Gilbert  for  his  testimonium  in  the 
late  "disloyal  times."  {Lane.  MSS.,  vol.  li.,  p.  129.)  He  had  perhaps 
never  been  a  very  sincere  or  zealous  presbyterian,  and  at  the  restoration 
conformed  to  the  church.  He  was,  however,  hotly  opposed,  like  his  patron, 
Charles,  earl  of  Derby,  to  the  views  of  the  Eoman  catholic  church,  and 
"talked  of  popery  coming  in,"  which  Pepys,  in  1662,  said,  "all  the  fana- 
tiques  doe."  He  is  often  named  with  respect  in  the  unpublished  Letters 
and  Correspondence  of  his  excellent  kinsman,  Richard  Legh  of  Lyme, 
esq.,  M.P.  (Lane.  MSS.)  Peb.  26,  1669,  Mr.  Legh  writes  from  London 
to  his  wife  at  Lyme  :  "  Yesterday  we  read  the  Bill  for  the  King's  Sup- 
ply and  upon  Monday  'twill  be  read  again  —  nobody  opposeth  it  now. 
A  strict  Bill  against  Fauaticks  is  preparing.  We  have  met  several 
times  about  it,  and  have  it  ready  now  to  bring  into  the  house."  On 
the  6th  November,  1673,  he  again  writes:  "There  was  such  burning 
of  the  Pope  last  night.  Sir  Anthony  Cope  had  a  barrell  of  pitch  and 
a  Mawment  of  Straw  (one  of  Downes  Legh's  '  John  Obetts '),  that  had 
a  triple  Crown,  lawne  sleaves,  a  cope,  and  severall  fripperies,  like  to  his 
Holiness  at  Eome,  which  was  sett  in  the  Barrel  of  Pitch,  and  a  linke 
fir'd,  and  stuck  i'th'  reare  of  itt,  which  gave  fire,  and  a  thousand  people,  I 
doe  believe,  were  spectators.  My  brother  Jack  and  I  walked  an  houre 
by  the  light  of  it.  It  was  set  in  the  higher  end  of  the  Square.  The 
Lady  Devonshire  and  the  Lady  Southampton  had  each  a  great  fire  there. 


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85 


My  Father  [in-law,  Sir  Tho.  Chicheley]  another ;  and  a  sad  accident 
had  like  to  have  been,  for  the  boys  were  charging  their  guns  in  the 
Hall,  and  a  pound  of  gunpowder  took  fire  in  the  Hall  window,  and  did 
noe  more  hurt  then  burn  the  old  Porter's  Beard  (who  came  not  long 
since)  and  the  haire  which  he  had,  in  a  most  magnificent  manner.  Sir 
Gilbert  Ireland  enjoyed  the  sport."  On  the  6th  February,  1674-5,  sir 
Gilbert  was  at  Hutt,  keeping  up  unbounded  hospitality,  and  Mr.  Legh 
was  engaged  to  dine  with  him  on  the  following  day,  having  dined  with 
sir  William  Gerard,  at  Garswood,  on  the  preceding  day,  and  was  after- 
wards to  proceed  to  Croxheath.  On  the  27th  April,  1675,  Mr.  Legh 
again  writes  from  London  :  "  To  day  the  House  sate  till  almost  foure, 
and  we  were  obliged  to  be  at  a  Committee  before  six.  The  news  of 
Parliament  and  a  Gazette  I  have  herewith  sent  —  thou  wilt  see  how 
they  screwe,  and  another  is  expected  to  come  on.  One  thing  pleaseth 
me  that  I  see,  the  House  is  pretty  calme  (though  severe),  and  I  hope 
the  conclusion  may  end  well,  for  the  malicious  party  are  broke.  I  have 
visited  the  good  Lord  Archbishop  of  York,  who  is  concerned  as  deeply 
in  theirs  as  the  youngest  in  our  House,  and  when,  yesterday,  the  Lords 
were  so  warme  they  moved,  at  4  in  the  afternoon,  to  adjourn  their 
Debate,  which  still  continues  upon  the  Test,  they  believing  the  Bishops, 
being  old  men,  would  have  been  glad  of  that  recesse.  The  old  Lads, 
however,  mov'd  to  stick  to  it,  and  at  nine  or  ten  at  night  they  voted  the 
Test  to  be  reduced  into  a  Bill.  Methinks  the  actions  of  ....  ^^  and 
these  days  are  now  upon  the  Stage,  and  the  violent  Presbyterians  and 

Papists  goe  hand  in  hand  in  that  house Sir  Gilbert 

Ireland's  worst  fears  seem  likely  to  come  to  pass " 

His  days,  however,  were  numbered,  as,  on  the  30th  April,  1675  ^^ 
expired  at  Bewsey,  at  the  age  of  51,  having  been  elected  mayor  of 
Liverpool  in  the  preceding  year,  so  that  he  was  not  in  the  house  of 
commons  during  these  debates,  and  died  in  his  mayoralty.  (Moore  Bental, 
p.  132.)  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  man  of  haughty  temper  and 
stately  demeanour.  Prom  excessive  drinking  and  extravagant  expen- 
diture of  money,  his  electioneering  proved  fatal  to  his  purse  and  inju- 
rious to  his  health.  (Gregson's  Fragments,  Harland's  Ed.,  p.  102.) 
On  the  8th  May  Mr.  Legh  writes  from  London :  "  The  Lords  are 
still  very  high  about  their  privileges,  and  now  we  have  a  new  quarreU, 
betwixt  a  member  of  ours  (one  S''  John  Pagg),  who  was  summoned 
^  A  few  words  in  cypher. 


S6  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

to  their  Bar  upon  a  suite,  aud  the  two  Houses  are  to  have  Con- 
ferences. This  is  a  brave  bone  cast  betwixt  the  two  Houses  at  this 
critical  time.  In  short,  the  Papist  and  Presbyterian  joyne  heartily 
against  the  Church  of  England.  Yesterday  we  had  a  Letter  from  the 
King  in  answer  to  our  Addresse,  w'^  the  Reasons  against  Lauderdale. 
—  'Tis  a  hard  pull  they  put  upon  the  King,  to  gratify  their  lust  in 
every  thing,  and  nobody  can  tell  when  they  are  pleas'd.  Some  believe 
they  carry  with  this  height  to  force  a  Dissolution.  This  morning  the 
King  sent  us  another  Answer,  by  Secretary  Coventry,  to  the  Addresse 
for  recalling  his  subjects  out  of  France.  He  told  us  there  was  but  a 
few,  and  those  were  established  at  the  time  he  concluded  the  peace 
with  Holland,  and  desir'd  he  might  not  intrench  upon  that,  and,  for 
the  future,  he  promised  his  Proclamation  should  come  out,  that  noe  more 
should  goe.  This,  too,  would  not  downe  without  further  consideration, 
soe  'twas  deferr'd  till  Monday  —  the  consideration  thereof.     As  yet 

nothing  is  done  either  for  King  or  Country "     On  the 

loth  May  Mr.  Legh  again  writes  from  London:  "I  tould  you  in  my 
last  that  Lyrpool  election  was  likely  to  be  warmly  contested,  but  I 
have  made  no  promises.  S""  Grilbert,  w""  all  his  endeavour  for  the  wel- 
fare of  that  place,  is  now  accused  of  serving  the  times,  and  some 
minions,  I  say  not  undei'lings,  who  profess'd  to  be  his  friends,  now 
spitefully  add,  his  own  turns  too.  Had  these  dar'd  to  say  soe  much  in 
his  time,  they  would  have  had  a  torturing  racke,  and  would  have  been 
rightly  thought  the  falsest  and  untliankfullest  of  mortals.  Thou 
knowest  one  of 'em,  him  thathath  hisportion  in  this  life,  for  he  said  to  thee, 
his  heaven  was  here,  and  no  wonder  he  devises  to  make  his  paradise  as 
dainty  as  he  can ;  but  the  lines  and  levels  of  his  ambition  and  bitter 
girds  ought  not  to  concur  to  the  damage  of  S'  Gilbert's  honour,  for  the 
grave  covers  him,  and  I  know  his  ways  were  of  another  fashion.  But 
what  foul  dunghills  malice  and  envy  doe  belch  out.  S'  Grilbert  look'd 
death  in  the  face  without  dread,  and  mett  the  blessed  Master  he  always 
profess'd  to  serve  (God  knows  how),  as  Legh  Bowdon  assured  me,  with 
sweet  content  and  undaunted  spirit,  and  my  worst  wish  for  his  detrac- 
tors is,  that  they  may  doe  the  same " 

At  the  latter  part  of  sir  Gilbert  Ireland's  life  the  Eoman  catholics 
were  stni  striving  for  the  ascendancy,  and  he  supported  the  Test  act,  and 
vindicated  the  penal  laws,  which  were  so  objectionable  to  Dryden,  and 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  87 

the  party  to  which  he  had  attached  himself.  After  the  death  of  sir 
Gilbert,  the  Declaration  of  Liberty  of  Conscience  was  published,  and 
the  " Hind  and  Panther"  appeared.  The  poet  represented  the  church 
of  Eome  as  a  milk-white  Hind,  always  in  peril  from  the  church  of 
England  Panther,  the  Presbyterian  Wolf,  the  Independent  Bear,  the 
Anabaptist  Boar,  and  the  Socinian  Pox,  all  glaring  fiercely  at  her.  The 
burden  of  the  poem  was  to  induce  the  Dissenters  to  make  common 
cause  with  the  Eoman  catholics  against  the  church  of  England.  This, 
it  will  be  observed,  was  well  known  to  intelligent  men  like  Eichard 
Legh  and  sir  Gilbert  Ireland,  and,  notwithstanding  their  firm  adherence 
to  Charles  the  Second's  general  policy,  they  were  scrupulous  in  their 
support  of  the  independence  of  the  English  church.  James  the  Second's 
object  was  to  further  these  long  concealed  views  of  the  Eoman  catholic 
party,  and,  as  Macauley  observes,  to  overpower  the  Anglican  church  by 
forming  a  coalition  of  sects  against  her.  On  the  2nd  January  1678-9 
Mr.  Legh  writes  from  London :  "  Some  say  the  King  is  very  uneasy 
since  the  Prorogation.  I  praye  God  spare  his  life.  Here  is  the  sad- 
dest Christmas  ever  was  known.  Now  they  begin  to  say  this  (Gates' 
Plot)  was  only  a  contrivance  of  Dr.  Tillotson  and  some  such.  The 
woman  in  Long  Acre  I  saw,  too,  last  night,  and  she  calls  the  Priests 
'  poor  creatures '  and  '  wretches '  '  they  never  think  any  body  any  harm, 
and  as  for  Gates  and  Bedlow,  one  is  mad,  and  the  other  has  been 
burnt  i'th'  hand.  Now  'tis  seen  why  they  durst  not  write.'  This  day 
I  dined  at  Mr.  Attorney's  w""  Sir  Thomas  [Chicheley,  chancellor  of  the 
duchy  of  Lancaster]  and  Dr.  Tillotson.  I  was  invited  to  Sir  Eobert 
Carr's  where  I  have  been  this  even,  and  found  the  Lord  Derby  and 
the  two  Lyrpool  Burgesses,  and  have  left  them  all  at  Cards,  with  Tom 
Cholmley  and  the  ladies.     They  goe  to  morrow  to  Sir  John  Bennett's 

twelve  miles  off "     {Lane.  MSS.) 

Sir  Gilbert  Ireland  died  in  involved  circumstances,  and  assigned  by 
will  his  large  estates  in  trust  for  the  payment  of  his  debts,  empowering 
his  trustees  to  lease  his  Lancashire  and  to  sell  his  Cheshire  property. 
It  seems,  however,  that  he  afterwards  sequestered  his  estates  for  twenty 
or  thirty  years,  until  his  circumstances  were  discharged,  and  left  each 
of  his  sisters  £180  a  year  for  life.  (Gregson's  Fragments,  p.  202.)  Pie 
was  buried  in  his  own  Chapel  at  Hale,  in  the  parish  of  Childwall,  and 
a  blue  marble  flat  stone  covers  his  remains,  on  which  is  incised :  "  Ul- 
TiMus  DoMus.     Fiat  Voluntas  Dei." 


88  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

His  two  surviving  sisters  Eleauor  and  Martha  succeeded  to  the 
auQuity  cliarged  on  his  paternal  estates,  whilst  Bewsey  passed  under 
the  deed  of  settlement  of  Thomas  Ireland,  esq.,  dated  1637  (see  ante, 
p.  49,)  to  his  nephew  Eichard  Atherton  of  Atherton,  esq.,  M.P.,  after 
tlie  death  of  Margaret,  lady  Ireland,  which  occurred  two  months  sub- 
quent  to  her  husband's  premature  decease. 

With  this  lady  expired  an  old  and  honoured  Lancashire  name,  which 
centuries  had  invested  with  popular  regard,  and  which  she  found,  and 
for  any  thing  which  appears  to  the  contrary  left,  unsullied.  Unfortu- 
nately, however,  the  Irelands  have  left  no  public  monuments  to  prove 
that  they  did  not  live  for  themselves  alone.     B.'] 


SIR  THOMAS  GERRARD,  1601. 
Original  Funeral  Certificate  of  the  North.     State  Paper  Office?^ 

S""  Thomas  Gerrard  of  the  Bryne  in  the  co.  of  Lancaster  Knight, 
deceased  on  the  of  September  anno  160 1  and  was  In- 
terred in  Wynwick  Church  in  his  Chaple  in  the  said  County  on 
the  xxviij''^  of  October  A^  predict. 

He  maried  Elizabeth  eldest  daughter  and  one  of  the  heyres  of 
S""  John  Port  of  Etwall  in  Derbyshire.  They  haue  yssue  Thomas 
Gerrard  Esq.  theire  sonne  and  heyre  John  Gerrard  1^  sonne 
Dorothy  Gerrard  Mary  Gerrard  and  Martha  Gerrard. 

The  said  Thomas  Gerrard  sonne  of  S"^  Thomas  hath  maryed 
Cyseley  daughter  to  Walter  Maney  Esq.  and  by  her  hath  yssue 
Thomas  Gerrard  sonne  and  heyre  John  Gerrard  7.^  sonne  Eliza- 
beth eldest  daughter  Fraunces  2^  daughter. 

Dorothy  eldest  daughter  to  S''  Thomas  maryed  to  Ed.  Peckam 
Esq.  and  have  yssue,  Mary  1^  daughter  to  S""  Thomas  hath  maryed 
John  Jenisonne  Esq''  and  hath  yssue. 

^  Published  also  in  Miscellanea  Qenealogiea  et  Seraldica,  by  J.  J.  Howard, 
LL.D.,  F.S.A.     Part  ii.,^^  46,  Oct.,  i856. 


LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES.  89 

Martha  Gerrard  youngest  daughter  to  S''  Thomas  maryed 
Michell  Jeneson  brother  to  John  aforesaid. 

This  wo^i  Knight  deceased  beareth  for  his  first  Coate  the  fiehl 
argent  a  Saltyer  gules.  The  2^  Azur  a  lyon  Rampant  or,  crowned 
or.  The  3  Azur  a  lyone  Hampaut  argent.  The  4*^^  argent  vpon  a 
bend  azur  3  staggs  heads  cabesed  or.  The  5*^  quarterly  Indented 
gules  &  or.  The  6*^  sa.  a  Cheueron  engr.  betweene  3  owlets  ar. 
The  7*^  argent  vpon  a  cheveron  gules  3  bezants.  The  8  gules  a 
bend  argent.  The  ii^'^  g.  a  sythe  argent.  All  these  Coates  I  fynd 
quartered  in  the  glasse  wyndow  in  his  Chaple  at  the  Bryne  which 
wear  boarne  by  his  ancester  in  an^  15 18. 

Tho.  Gerard. 

In  this  funeral  certificate,  omitted  in  its  proper  place,  three  genera- 
tions of  the  Gerard  family  are  mentioned. 

The  first  is  sir  Thomas  Gerard,  knight,  who  died  in  the  year  1601. 
He  was  the  head  of  one  of  the  great  Lancashire  families,  and  was  des- 
cended "  of  gentle  blood,"  being  the  son  of  Thomas  Gerard  of  Bryn, 
esq.,  by  his  wife  Jane,  daughter  of  sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme,  kut.  (Marr. 
Coy.,  dated  i8th  July,  9  Hen.  VIIL,  Lane.  3ISS.,  vol.  xxxviii.,  p.  443), 
and  was  born,  according  to  computation,  about  the  year  1525.  I  would 
not  desecrate  the  grave,  to  adopt  a  remark  of  lord  Macaulay,  nor  dig 
up  the  skeletons  of  the  departed  only  to  mutilate  and  insult  them,  but 
truth  will  not  be  injured  by  stating  that  this  son  was  not  trained  in  a 
happy  or  domestic  home.  His  father  knew  nothing  of  letters,  and 
spent  his  time  in  the  too  fashionable  amusements  of  his  age,  being 
addicted  to  gallantry,  hunting,  drinking,  and  carousing,  and  yet  it 
could  not  be  said  of  him,  as  of  the  independent  and  magnanimous  lord 
Marmion, 

he  scarce  received 

For  Gospel  wliat  the  Chui'ch  beheved, 

as  he  continued  attached  to  the  creed  in  which  he  had  been  educated. 
He  committed,  however,  a  great  social  outrage  upon  his  young  wife,  the 
daughter  of  sir  Peter  Legh,  one  of  the  most  influential  of  the  Lanca- 
shire and  Cheshire  territorial  families.     In  the  year  1543  he  was  "  con- 

N 


90  LANCASHIRE  FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES. 

vented,"  under  the  style  and  title  of  "  Syi*  Thomas  Gerard  of  the 
Brynne,  Knyght,"  before  the  king's  commissioners  for  divers  causes  in 
tlie  north,  and  sundry  allegations  were  brought  against  him,  his  general 
conduct  being  considered  injurious  in  example  to  his  son  Thomas 
(whose  funeral  certificate  is  here  printed),  and  prejudicial  to  the  church 
and  commonweal.  As  a  curious  feature  of  the  state  of  morals  in  Lan- 
cashire about  the  time  of  the  Reformation,  some  of  the  statements  made 
in  this  case  may  be  here  given,  nor  was  it  at  that  period  by  any  means 
a  singular  case.  National  manners  were  reflected  by  national  amuse- 
ments ;  but  with  the  Reformation  the  manners  gradually  improved, 
whilst  the  sports  of  the  field  became  more  I'estricted  to  the  sterner  sex. 
"i  June.  xxxv.  Hen.  viii.  1543.  At  which  daye  forasmoche  as  it 
appearyd  to  y^  Kynges  Comissoners  that  Thomas  Gerard  of  the  Bryne 
hath  kept  a  Concubyne  and  lyved  in  Adulterye.  And  that  the  disagree- 
ment betwyxt  him  and  hys  wyfe  hath  bene  the  cose  and  originall 
grounde  thereof.  And  yt  further  appeareth  to  the  s^  Cornissioners  that 
by  medyacion  of  fryndes  and  for  desyr  to  plese  god  the  same  Thomas 
and  hys  wyfe  wyll  cohabyt  and  gree  agayne  togeder  :  It  is  Ordered  that 
from  hensforth  the  sayd  Thomas  Gerard  of  th'one  ptye  and  Jane  Gerard 
and  Peers  Legh  her  brother  (who  had  also  married  Margaret  daughter 
of  Thomas  Gerard  of  the  Bryn)  of  th'other  ptye  shall  not  only  be 
faythfull  loving  and  harty  fryndes  together  But  that  also  the  said 
Thomas  and  Jane  shall  forget  and  forgive  all  fawtes  trespasses  and 
off'ences  by  hys  sayd  wyfe  heretofore  comytted  and  y"  sayd  Thomas  in 
lyke  maher,  and  they  shall  knyt  in  hartys  w""  faythfull  love  a  new  and 
pfecte  Matrymonye.  And  the  said  Peers  Legh  and  his  wife  Margaret 
and  the  sayd  Jane  Gerard  the  iii.  daye  of  Julye  next  comyng  shall 
lovyngly  with  free  and  gentle  harts  come  together  to  Wyndlishaw  and 
there  Hunt  and  make  merry  with  the  said  Thomas  Gerard  and  his 
frynds  and  that  the  morrow  after  that  is  to  say  the  iiii.  daye  of  July 
the  said  Thomas  Gerard  and  Jane  his  wyfe  shall  goe  agayne  to  Hunt 
and  make  merry  with  the  sayd  Peers  Legh  at  Bradley  and  then  return 
with  his  sayd  wyfe  to  the  Bryn,  or  whither  him  pleaseth,  and  cohabit 
with  his  sayd  wyfe And  if  any  breach  or  disagree- 
ment doe  chaunce  again  betwixt  the  sayd  Thomas  and  his  wyfe  they 
shall  upon  proofe  thereof  immediately  pay  to  the  sayd  Peers  Legh 
Vil.  xiiis.  xixid.  for  costs  and  charges  he  hath  sustayned  hei'etofore.    And 


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above  all,  tlie  Comissioners  doe  order  that  from  hensforth  the  sayd 
Thomas  shall  kepe  no  carnal  accompanye  with  hys  olde  Coneubyne 
nowther  take  no  newe  one  unto  him.  And  that  the  Penanuce  for  his 
misdemenors  heretofore  due  and  condygne  shalbe  further  respettyd 

tyll  tryall  of  his  Amendment The  said  Thomas 

also  entered  into  obligatory  Covenants  with  the  King " 

{Lane.  MSS.,  vol.  xxii.,  p.  170.)  On  the  12th  August,  1537,  he  pre- 
sented Mr.  John  Harper,  master  of  decrees,  to  the  rectory  of  Briudle, 
which  he  had  recovered  by  a  process  at  law  from  sir  William  Cavendish 
{Beff.  Liclif.),  and  in  1549,  he  settled  the  advowson  on  Margery,  wife 
of  sir  John  Port,  knt.,  his  stepfather,  erroneously  called  by  Baines  (vol. 
iii.,  p.  497)  his  "father-in-law."  This  connection,  however,  is  not  given 
in  the  Port  pedigree  in  Bigsby's  History  of  JRepton.  In  1553,  being  the 
high  sheriff  of  Lancashire,  he  was  a  commissioner  for  the  subsidy, 
granted  in  that  year,  along  with  Edward,  earl  of  Derby  (who  was  often 
in  the  duchy  court,  on  matters  in  dispute  and  litigation  with  his  late 
father,  sir  Thomas  Gerard),  sir  Richard  Molyneux  of  Sefton,  sir  Peter 
Legh  of  Lyme,  sir  John  Holcroft  of  Holcroft,  sir  John  Atherton  of 
Atherton,  and  sir  "William  Norris  of  Speke,  knts.  It  may  be  hoped 
that  he  had  become  reconciled  to  his  wife,  and  that  they  had  "  knyt  in 
hartys  w^''  faythfull  love  a  new  and  pfect  matrymonye,"  as  he  rebuilt 
Bryn  hall,  in  the  reign  of  Edward  the  sixth  and  his  arms,  impaling 
those  of  Legh  of  Lyme,  remained'  there  in  the  last  century.  In  the  8 
and  9  Elizabeth  he  was  M.P.  for  the  county  of  Lancaster.  (Baines, 
vol.  iii.,  p.  641.)     He  died  about  the  year  157 1. 

He  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son,  sir  Thomas  Gerard,  knt.,  whose 
funeral  certificate  is  here  printed.  He  married  his  kinswoman,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  and  coheiress  of  sir  John  Port  of  Etwall,  co.  Derby,  K.B., 
M.P.,  by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  sir  Thomas  Gifford  of  Chilling- 
ton  castle,  CO.  Stafford,  and  with  this  marriage  the  recollection  of  the 
various  unhappy  disputes  and  lengthened  litigation  between  sir  John 
Port  the  elder,  chief  justice  of  the  king's  bench  (and  dame  Margery,  his 
second  wife),  with  his  stepson,  sir  Thomas  Gerard,  regarding  his  mother's 
claim  of  excessive  dower,  lands,  and  jDossessions  within  the  manors  of 
"Windleshaw,  Eccleston,  and  elsewhere  in  Lancashire,  would  pass  away. 
(BiicJi.  Lane.  Becords.)  Old  lady  Port  was  the  grandmother  of 
Thomas  Gerard,  esq.,  and  he  married  her  second  husbadn's  grand- 


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daughter.  The  mother  of  sir  John  Port  was  Jane,  daughter  and  heiress 
of  John  ritzlierhert  of  Etwall,  and  relict  of  Jolui  Pole  of  Eadbourne, 
CO.  Derby,  esq.  Sir  John  Port  will  always  bo  deservedly  memorable  as 
the  liberal  founder,  in  1557,  of  Eepton  grammar  school  and  of  the  hos- 
pital of  Etwall,  which  useful  charities  were  incorporated  by  letters 
patent,  granted  in  162 1,  by  James  the  first.  The  present  trustees  and 
patrons  of  these  wealthy  institutions  are  the  descendants  of  the  three 
daughters  and  coheiresses  of  sir  John  Port,  viz.:  i.  sir  Eobert  Tolver 
Gerard,  bart.,  in  right  of  his  ancestress,  Elizabeth  Port;  2.  Francis, 
twelfth  earl  of  Huntingdon,  in  right  of  his  ancestress,  Dorothy  Port, 
who  married  George,  fourth  earl  of  Huntingdon  (a  title,  unhappily,  just 
extinct);  3.  George,  sixth  earl  of  Chesterfield,  in  right  of  his  ancestress, 
Margaret  Port,  who  married  sir  Thomas  Stanhope  of  Shelford,  co. 
Notts,  knt.,  M.P.  (See  Hist,  of  Bepton,  by  Eobert  Bigsby,  esq.,  LL.D. 
4to.     1854.) 

Sir  Thomas  Gerard  filled  none  of  the  high  county  ofiices  during  this 
reign,  nor  did  he  unite  with  the  loyal  supporters  of  the  crown  in 
defending  the  queen  against  her  enemies,  foreign  and  domestic,  and  yet 
Baines  says  he  distinguished  himself  by  his  zealous  and  disinterested 
service  in  his  country's  cause  (vol.  i.,  p.  559),  of  which,  however,  I 
have  failed  to  discover  any  proof,  except  in  his  compulsory  legal 
contributions.  He  was  never  a  guest  at  Knowsley  during  the 
lifetime  of  Henry,  earl  of  Derby,  and  therefore  was  excluded  from 
the  splendid  hospitalities  and  receptions  of  that  popular  nobleman. 
{^Stanley  Papers,  part  ii.)  He  strongly  maintained  the  creed,  inno- 
vations, and  accretions  of  the  Latin  church,  and  was  twice  sent  to 
the  tower  on  a  charge,  first,  in  1572,  of  aiding  the  duke  of  Norfolk, 
in  conjunction  with  the  court  of  Eome,  to  depose  queen  Elizabeth,  to 
liberate  the  queen  of  Scots,  to  elevate  her  to  the  crown,  and  to  restore 
the  Eoman  catholic  religion  {Biirgliley  Papers,  vol.  ii.,  p.  771),  and 
afterwards  owing  to  his  complicity  in  Throgmorton's  conspiracy.  He 
only  obtained  his  own  liberty  by  alienating  the  noble  estate  of  his  great- 
grandmother,  which  had  descended  to  him  from  the  Bromleys,  to  his 
wealthy,  influeutial,  and  perhaps  rapacious  kinsman,  sir  Gilbert  Gerard, 
M.P.,  at  that  time  the  attorney-general.  Sir  Thomas  was  also  com- 
pelled to  dispose  of  several  manors  in  Leicestershire,  Derbyshire,  Che- 
shire, and  Lancashire,  owing  to  the  expenses  incurred  by  his  political 


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disaffection,  and  left  his  estates  much  encumbered  by  fines,  mortgages, 
and  other  imposts.  He  had  a  natural  son,  who  was  also  ill-affected  to 
the  state,  and  in  a  list  of  Lancashire  recusants  of  the  loth  Sept.,  1586, 
there  was  one  "  Burton,  a  Freest,  of  the  same  gang,  remayning  w""  the 
wyfe  of  S''  Thomas  Gerott's  base  sonne,  being  a  Fleming  borne,  and  a 
very  great  harbourer  of  the  ill-affected  gent,  in  those  parts.  (Baines, 
vol.  i.,  p.  542.)  His  chief  allies  in  Lancashire  were  sir  Thomas  and  sir 
Edward  Stanley  (see  ante,  p.  40),  the  two  sons  of  the  third  earl  of  Derby, 
and  one  Eolleston.  He  left  issue,  as  recorded  in  this  certificate,  i.  sir 
Thomas,  2.  John,  who,  as  a  champion  of  the  Roman  catholic  party,  is 
conspicuous  as  one  of  the  resolute  band  of  men  who  disowned  his  alle- 
giance to  queen  Elizabeth,  rejected  her  supremacy,  and  refused  to  ac- 
knowledge her  claim  to  the  crown.  Like  the  reformers  of  the  preceding 
reign,  he  was  exposed  to  bitter  obloquy  and  harsh  persecution,  was  im- 
prisoned in  the  tower,  and  is  said  to  have  been  several  times  tortured ; 
but  fortunately  escaping  from  his  confinement,  he  settled  at  Kheims, 
and,  as  his  prison  discipline  had  failed  to  shake  his  convictions  and  con- 
stancy, he  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Jesuits'  college  there. 
He  is  doubtless  "  the  sonne  of  S'  Tho"  Gerard, "  who  was  "  a  person  to 
be  sought  after,"  being  suspected  of  implication  in  Babington's  plot. 
(SfflrZ.  M88.  360,  quoted  by  Baines,  vol.  i.,  541.)  Of  the  daughters 
of  sir  Thomas,  i.  Mary  married  John  Jenison  of  "Walworth,  co.  Dur- 
ham, esq. ;  2.  Dorothy  married  Edmond,  son  of  sir  G-eorge  Peckham, 
knt. ;  and  3.  Martha  married  Michael  Jenison,  gent.,  brother  of  the 
said  John.  In  1601  sir  Thomas  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son,  also 
named  in  this  funeral  certificate.  He  was  born  about  the  year  1557. 
In  1584-5  he  accompanied  Henry,  earl  of  Derby,  on  his  grand  embas- 
sage to  France,  and  in  the  next  year  he  was  elected  M.P.  for  Lancas- 
ter, being  a  deputy-lieutenant  and  justice  of  the  peace  for  the  county. 
He  is  memorable  as  having  been  the  warm  personal  friend  and  con- 
stant companion  of  Eerdinando,  fifth  earl  of  Derby,  and  they  were 
probably  two  of  the  most  accomplished  and  genial  young  men  in  the 
county.  Mr.  Payne  Collier  has  shown,  from  the  Registers  of  the 
Stationers'  Company,  how  generally  the  poets  of  the  time  lamented 
the  death  of  the  latter,  although  several  of  their  ephemeral  produc- 
tions have  perished ;  and  Mr.  Thomas  Gerard  is  frequently  named  as 
a  guest  at  Knowsley  and  Lathom  house.     {Stanley  Papers,  part  ii.) 


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On  Sunday,  25tli  November,  iqSy,  Mr^  John  Dudley  and  Mr.  Gerard 
arrived  at  Knowslcj  (whilst  the  earl  was  "at  the  Court"),  on  a  visit 
to  Ferdinando  lord  Strange.     On  the  following  Thursday  they  rode 
to  J^tbtom,  where  tliey  remained  until  the  Tuesday,  when  they  again 
returned  to  Knowslej.     After  a  short  stay  Mr.  Gerard  went  to  Bryn, 
as  on  the  Monday  next  following  he  and  his  wife  again  visited  lord 
and  lady  Strange,  and  staid  until  the  end  of  the  week,  enjoying  the 
profuse  hospitalities  and  fashionable  amusements  of  "the  Northern 
Court."    (pp.  43-44.)    On  Wednesday,  20th  January,  1587-8,  the  day 
after  the  earl  had  gone  to  London,  lord  Strange,  lord  Dudley,  lady 
Compton  (sister  of  lady  Strange),  INFi-.  John  Dudley,  Mr.  Legh,  and 
Mr.  Gerard,  went  to  the  said  Mr.  Gerard's  house  at  the  Brynn  (p.  47), 
and  on  the  next  day  Mr.  Gerard  and  his  wife  returned  to  Knowsley 
with  lord  Strange.    On  the  day  following  Mr.  Gerard  departed.   (Ibid.) 
In  Dec,  1593,  Thomas  Gerard  of  the  Bryn,  gent.,  and  Ferdinando, 
earl  of  Derby,  were  elected  governors  of  Blackburn  grammar  school,  at 
that  time  a  great  protestant  institution,  and  each  of  them  gave  "  in 
benevolence"  to  the  school  fund  xxs.     In  16 16  sir  Thomas  Gerard, 
bart.,  gave  to  the  same  fund  xxii*. ;  and  in  4th  Car.,  1628,  sir  Thomas 
Gerard  and  nine  other  knights  and  baronets  were  governors  of  the  same 
school,  one  of  its  early  governors  and  principal  patrons  being  "Thomas 
Gerard,   Esq.,   H.M.   Attorney-General."     (Lane.   3ISS.,   Blackburn 
School.)     On  the  17th  April,  1603,  being  one  of  the  loyal  Lancashire 
gentlemen  who  signed  the  congratulatory  address  from  the  county  to 
the  king  at  Wigan,  he  and  his  eldest  son  received  the  honour  of  knight- 
hood at  Grimston,  near  York,  on  the  31st  March,  from  James  the  first, 
then  on  his  progress  to  London  to  take  possession  of  the  crown  (Baines, 
vol.  i.,  p.  565);  and  on  the  22nd  May,  161 1,  he  (the  father)  was  created 
a  baronet  on  the  first  day  of  the  institution  of  the  order,  and  had  the 
singular  favour  of  a  gratuitous  patent  in  consideration  of  the  losses 
sustained  by  his  father  in  behalf  of  Mary  queen  of  Scots,  and  there  is 
reason  to  conclude  that  he  had  before  this  time  renounced  his  heredi- 
tary creed,  and  become  a  member  of  the  church  of  England.     Bishop 
Challoner  records  an  instance  of  his  great  harshness,  in  forcing  his 
Eoman    catholic  brother,   Mr.   Nicholas    Gerard,   to   the   protestant 
church,  and  placing  him  opposite  the  minister  during  the  service.   (Mem. 
Mission.  Priests,  vol.  ii.,  p.  130.)     In  July  and  August,  1612,  he  was 


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actively  employed  iu  taking  tlie  depositions  of  witnesses  against  a  poor 
old  witeli,  at  Windle,  and  he  was  determined  that  the  hundred  of  West 
Derby  should  have  its  witch  as  well  as  other  parts  of  the  country.  A 
more  melancholy  tissue  of  absurd  and  incoherent  accusations  against 
the  prisoner,  says  Mr.  Crossley,  it  would  not  be  easy  to  find.  8he 
was  hanged,  from  all  that  appears,  because  one  person  was  suddenly 
"  pinched  on  her  thigh,  as  she  thought,  with  four  fingers  and  a  thumb," 
and  because  another  was  "  sore  pained  with  a  great  warch  in  his  bones." 
(Potts' Z)i>cor.  of  Witchcraft,  p.  44,  note,  Chet.  See.)  In  1614  he  was 
returned  to  parliament  by  sir  Peter  Legh  of  Lyme,  for  the  nomination 
borough  of  Newton,  but  appears  only  to  have  sat  in  one  session. 
(Baines'  Hist.,  vol.  iii.,  p.  646.)  In  1617  he  was  one  of  the  Lancashire 
gentlemen  who  met  the  king  at  Hoghton  Tower.  (Assheton's  Journal, 
p.  25.)  In  1623  he  was  M.P.  for  Liverpool.  (Baines'  Hist.,  vol.  iv., 
p.  146.) 

In  1628  father  Edmund  Arrowsmith  (whose  mother  was  a  daughter 
of  Mr.  Nicholas  Gerard,  and  tlie  niece  of  sir  Thomas) ,  a  Jesuit  priest, 
born  at  Haydock,  in  the  parisli  of  Wimvidv,  iu  the  year  15 85,  educated 
at  Douay,  and  politically  opposed  to  the  crownand  church  of  England, 
was,  in  pursuance  of  the  narrow  policy  of  the  age,  executed  at  Lancas- 
ter. (Bishop  Challoner's  Mem.  of  Mission.  Priests,  vol.  ii.  p.  130.) 
The  hand  of  the  martyr  was  afterwards  sent  to  Bryn,  and  forms  the 
subject  of  a  legend,  elaborated  by  Mr.  Roby,  in  his  second  series  of 
Traditions  of  Lancashire  (vol.  ii.)  ;  but  he  erroneously  states  that 
father  Arrowsmith  was  executed  "  in  the  time  of  William  the  third," 
after  "  liaving  been  found  guilty  of  a  rape!"  {Ihid.,  p.  186.)  The 
hand  of  sir  Thomas  Gerard  resting  on  a  skull  in  the  picture  which 
contains  his  portrait,  painted  when  a  young  man,  has  some  obvious 
reference  to  his  religious  convictions,  but  which,  whatever  they  were, 
did  not  prevent  lord  Strange  from  cultivating  the  most  intimate  rela- 
tions with  him.     (See  p.  68,  ante?) 

Sir  Thomas  married  three  wives :  i .  Cecily,  daughter  of  sir  Walter 
Maney  of  Staplehurst,  co.  Kent.,  knt.,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  sir  Thomas, 
who  died  20  Jac,  I.  v.p.  (leaving  issue  eight  children),  and  the  children 
named  in  this  funeral  certificate ;  2.  he  married  Mary,  daughter  of  sir 
John  Hawes,  knt.,  lord  mayor  of  London,  and  widow,  first  of  Mr.  John 
Smythe,  a  citizen  of  London,  and,  afterwards,  of  sir  Eobert  Leigh, 


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knt. ;   3.  he  married  Marj,  daughter  of  "William  Dormer,  esq.,  and 

widow  of Browne.     He  had  no  issue  by  either  of  these  two  wives. 

He  died  in  1630,  aged  about  73,  and  his  Inq.  post-mortem  was  taken 
6th  Car.  I.,  his  grandson  being  foimd  to  be  his  heir,  and  the  successor 
to  the  baronetcy.  Sir  Thomas  was  buried  in  his  chapel,  which  existed 
in  the  year  1492,  within  Winwick  church;  but  there  is  no  monument 
to  his  memory.  The  family  had  also  a  chantry  chapel  at  Ormskirk. 
(Hist.  Lane.  Chantries,  p.  100;  Stanley  Papers,  part  ii.,  note.)     B.'] 


INDEX 


ADLINGTON,  Peter,  75. 
Allen,  Eicbard,  52. 
Alport  lodge,  Manchester,  19. 
Anderson,  sir  Edmund,  70. 
AndertOD,  Thurstan,  42. 

,  "golden-mouthed,"  67. 

Andreives,  Samuel,  75. 
Angier,  rev.  John,  55. 
Anglesargli,  co.  Lane.,  12. 
Arneshead,  eo.  Westmoreland,  12. 
Arrowsmitb,  Edmund,  execution  of,  95. 
Ashaw,  Mr.,  of  the  Hill,  8. 
Ashton,  Eicliard,  of  Croston,  48. 
Aspinwall,  Edward,  39,  83. 
Assbeton,  Mr.,  of  Chadderton,  8. 

,  sir  Eapbe,  of  Whalley,  59. 

Aston,  sir  Thomas,  of  Aston,  49,  50. 
Atherton,  George,  52. 

,  John,  of  Atherton,  49,  51,  52,  59. 

,  sir  John,  of  Atherton,  91. 

,  Eichard,  of  Atherton,  52,  88. 

,  Mr.  and  Mrs.,  52. 

Aughton,  Eic,  33. 

,  Mrs.,  34. 

Aunslowe,  Mrs.,  36. 
Awleston,  co.  Lane,  12. 

BAILEY,  James,  57. 
,  John,  of  Kingsley,  29. 

Baker,  rer.  Daniel,  78. 
Banastre,  — ,  of  Bank,  50. 
Banester,  Eic,  of  Wem,  42. 
Banckes,  William,  of  Winstanley,  49. 
Bankes,  James,  of  Winstanley,  50,  52. 

,  William,  50,  52. 

,  Mrs.,  52. 

Barber,  rev.  Eobert,  77. 

Barlow  family,  45-7. 

,  sir  Alexander,  61 ;  notices  of,  45,  46. 


Barlow,  Ellis,  9,  46. 

,  Margaret,  52. 

Barlowe,  Alexander,  13. 

Barnes,  Tho.,  52. 

Barnett,  Mrs.,  52. 

Barrow,  William,  52. 

Barton,  Eichard,  of  Barton,  61. 

,  Eobert,  of  SmithiUs,  29,  36. 

,  Tho.,  52. 

Bate,  Dr.,  67. 
Bayley,  James,  75. 

,  Samuel,  76. 

Beck,  Stephen,  8. 

Belfield,  Ealpb,  of  Clegg  hall,  46. 

Bently,  Mr.,  52. 

Berkeley,  Henry  lord,  17. 

Beswick,  Eoger,  8. 

Bigsby's  Sistori/  of  Repton,  91,  92, 

Birch,  John,  75. 

Birkenhead,  Eawfe,  14. 

Birley,  Hugh  H.,  76. 

Blackburn  grammar  school,  QQ. 

Blackburne,  John,  83. 

BluudeU,  William,  of  Crosbie,  42. 

Bold  family,  58-9. 

,  Eichard,  of  Bold,  58,  82. 

Boler,  John,  of  Kingsey,  28. 
Bolton  en  le  Mores,  12. 

,  Eobert,  67. 

Booth  family,  48. 

,  captain,  of  Stockport,  50. 

[Bouth],  John,  of  Barton,  47. 

,  Eobert,  55. 

Bootle,  Edward,  75. 

Borton  in  Lonsdale,  co.  York,  12. 

Bourne,  rev.  W.,  77,  78. 

Bradford,  John,  martyr,  8. 

Bradley,  90. 

,  John,  20. 

O 


98 


INDEX. 


Bradshaw,  Joliu,  51,  7(i. 

Brcreton,  Richard,  of  Tatton,  80,  81. 

,  sir  TJriaii,  of  Hnndforth,  45,  46. 

,  Winiaiu,  of  Ashley,  46. 

Brett  crghfamily,  of  Brettergh-holt,  notices 

of,  38. 

,  John,  39. 

[Bretargh],  Katheriue,  notices  of, 

ST-'IO  ;  Latin  lines  on,  39. 

,  Maud,  39. 

,  William,  39. 

Browne,  Richard,  cobler,  78. 

Brueu,  John,  of  Bruen  Stapleford,  37,  39. 

Buckley,  rev.  John,  77. 

,  Richard,  54. 

Bulkley's  (Edw.)  Apologiefor  Religion,^!. 
Bunbery,  sir  Henry,  of  Stauney,  42. 
Burials,  orders  respecting,  1-3. 
Burscoghe,  T.,  21. 
Butler,  Edward,  50. 

,  Henry,  20. 

,  sir  Thomas,  of  Bewsej',  42. 

chapel,  Warrington,  49. 

Byrom,  Henry,  of  Byrom,  51. 

Byron,  sir  John,  66. 

Bythonie,  co.  Westmoreland,  12. 

CALDWELL,  John,  parson  of  Win- 
wick,  his  sermon,  64. 
Canon,  Dr.,  67. 
Carew,  sir  George,  66. 
Carey,  Mrs.,  36. 
CaiTC,  Ewan,  14. 
Carter,  Oliver,  B.D.,  77. 
Cartmell,  co.  Lane,  20. 
Caryll  [Carrell],  sir  Thomas,  60,  61. 
Case,  rev.  Thomas,  55. 

,  Dr.,  67. 

Cavendish,  sir  William,  91. 
Cecill,  Thomas,  earl  of  Exeter,  47. 
Chaderton,  bishop,  19,  27,  67. 
Chadwickc,  Adam,  35. 

,  James,  35. 

Challoner,  bishop,  94,  95. 

,  Elizabeth,  39. 

,  sir  Thomas,  28. 

Chandos,  Gray  Bridges  lord,  62. 
Charlies,  Potter,  35. 
Cheek,  sir  Thomas,  49. 
Chester,  book  of  ships  &c.  in  river  of,  20. 
Chetham,  Humphrey,  74,  79. 
Chichcley,  sir  Thomas,  85,  S7. 
Childwall,  co.  Lane,  13. 
Chorley,  co.  Lane,  12. 


Clarke,  George,  notices  of,  73-80. 

Clawghton,  co.  Lane,  12. 

Clifton,  Cuthbert,  of  Southworth,  50. 

,  Thomas,  of  Westbye,  42. 

Clowes,  rev.  John,  76. 

Cobone,  To.,  75. 

Coe,  rev.  John,  52,  53. 

CoUyer,  Dr.,  8. 

Compton,  sir  Henry,  3. 

Cooke,  Robert,  clarencieux,  3. 

Cope,  sir  Anthony,  84. 

Cople,  CO.  Lane,  12. 

Cotgrave,  Hugh,  Richmond  herald,  4. 

Cotton,  sir  George,  of  Combermere,  10. 

Crowther   George,  55. 

Crumpsall  near  Manchester,  74. 

DANIELL,  William,  75. 
Darcy,  sir  Henry,  3. 
Dauter's  (John)  Lancushire  s Lamentution 

66. 
Davenport,  sir  Hximphrey,  48. 
Davis's  (John)  Soly  Hoode,  71. 
Davisst,  Jhou,  35. 
Dawson,  John,  75. 
Dee,  Dr.  John,  76,  77. 
Derby,  Edward  third  earl  of,  notices  of, 

4-15  ;  epitaph  on,  14-5. 
,  Henry  fourth  earl  of,  63;  notices  of, 

15-28. 
,  Ferdinando  fifth  earl  of,  93,  94 ; 

notices  of,  63-9;   portraits,  68;  Alice 

his  countess,  62-73. 

,  William  sixth  earl  of,  31,  60,  69. 

Detheck,  Nicholas,  Windsor  herald,  28. 
Dethicke,  sir  Gilbert,  1. 
Dicconson,  Samuel,  75. 
Dickenson,  Michael,  75. 
Dormer,  William,  96. 
Dormyssius,  [?  of]  Ulster,  13. 
Doughtie,  Michael,  69. 
Downes,  John,  of  Wordley,  48. 
Draycote  [Draycort],  Philip,  42,  48. 
Dryden,  John,  86,  87. 
Dudley,  John,  14,  94. 
Dukenfield,  James,  of  Hindley,  59- 
Dutton,  George,  77. 

EGERTON,  sir  John,  earl  of  Bridg- 
M-ater,  62. 
,  sir  Thomas,  lord  Ellesmere,  chan- 
cellor, 62,  69,  70,71,72,  81. 

,  Philip,  of  Egerton,  81. 

,  Peter,  of  Shaw. 


INDEX. 


99 


Egerton,  sir  Richard,  of  Ridley,  80. 
Egertous  of  Ridley,  81. 
Eggerton,  John,  14. 
Elcock,  Alexander,  55. 
Ellis,  Hugh,  69. 
Etwall  hospital,  92. 

FAGG,,  sir  John,  85. 
ffaringtou,  William,  of  Worden,  13, 

30 ;  notice  of,  31 ;  Anne  his  wife,  34. 

,  Margaret,  notice  of,  33. 

Eicldiug,  Jeremiah,  76. 
Fitton,  sir  Edward,  19. 

,  Mrs.,  36. 

Fitzherbert,  John,  of  Etwall,  92. 
Fleetwood,  Richard,  of  Penwortham,  48. 

,  William,  notices  of,  28-9. 

Flower,  William,  norroy,  4. 
ffogg,  Jhon,  35. 
Fouldrey,  peel  of,  20. 
Fox,  Richard,  75. 

,  Scholastica,  39. 

,  Wilham,  of  Rhodes,  39. 

Fuller,  Dr.,  76  ;  quotation  from  his  Wor- 

fJiies,  73-4. 
Furues,  co.  Lane,  20. 
ffynney,  Nicholas,  13. 

GARDINER,  John,  52. 
Gaskell,  John,  74. 
Gee,  Edmund,  73,  79. 
Gerard  family,  88-96. 

,  sir  Gilbert,  60. 

,  John,  88,  93. 

• ,  Nicholas,  94. 

,  Piers,  52. 

,  sir  Robert  T.,  68. 

,  sir  Thomas,  88,  91-6. 

,  Thomas,  of  Bryn,  66,  68. 

,  sir  William,  85. 

Gifford,  sir  Thomas,  91. 
Gillibrownde,  Tho.,  14. 
Gorsuch  [Gossach],  James,  46. 
Goulden,  Thomas,  79. 
Greasley,  sir  Thomas,  45. 
Griffin,  John,  74. 

TZTAREFIELD  Place,  Middlesex,  70, 

Harper,  rev.  John,  91. 

Harrington's  (sir  John)  JEpigrams,  quota- 
tion from,  70. 

Harrison,  rev.  William,  39;  funeral  ser- 
mon by,  38. 


Hartley,  John,  74,  75. 
Hawarden,  Aune,  13. 
Hawes,  sir  John,  95. 
Hayes,  sir  Thomas,  83. 
Heatou,  Raphe,  39. 
Hesketh,  Bartholomew,  32,  33. 

,  Gabriell,  of  Aughton,  30,  32. 

,  Jane,  notice  of,  31. 

,  Robert,  notice  of,  32. 

,  Thomas,  of  Blackmore,  notice  of,  33. 

,  sir  Thomas,  of  Rufford,  M.P.,  51. 

Hey,  Margaret,  78. 
Heywood,  Thomas,  76,  84. 

's  (Robert),  Foems,  extract  from,  25. 

Hill's  (Robert),  Fatlncai/  to  Prayer,  71. 
Hiude's  Life  of  Mrs.  Brettergh,  38,  39, 40. 
Hockenhall,  John,  of  Prenton  ia  WiiTall, 

56,  57. 
Holcroft,  sir  John,  of  Holcroft,  91. 
Holland,  John,  39. 
HoUaude,  Rawffe,  13. 
Holme,  Hugh,  12. 

,  Phillippe,  35. 

Howai'th,  Theophilus,  of  Howarth,  84. 

Humfraye,  Wm.,  14. 

Hunter,  To.,  35. 

Huntingdon,  Henry  earl  of,  62. 

IRELAND  family,  82,  83,  88. 
.,  sir  Gilbert,  of  Hutte  and  Hale, 

52,  82  ;  account  of,  83-8. 

,  Jo.,  of  Halwood,  52. 

,  Margaret,  52,  82,  83. 

,  sir  Thomas,  of  Bewsey,  notices  of, 

49-53. 
,  Thomas,  his  son,  50,  52,  82  ;  notice 

of,  51. 
,  William,  57. 

JEFFERYES,  John,  of  Acton,  49,  51, 
52. 

,  judge,  51. 

,  Mrs.,  52. 

Jeuison,  John,  88,  93. 

.,  Michael,  89,  93. 

Johnson,  Heniy,  74. 

,  John,  75. 

,  rev.  Richard,  76,  78,  79. 

,  Thomas,  75. 

Jordan,  Mrs.,  actress,  17. 
Joyner,  Dr.,  67. 

KELEY,  Tliomas,  74. 
Killermore,  co.  Lane,  12. 


100 


INDEX. 


Kitson,  sir  Thomas,  62. 
Kvrke,  rev.  Ralph,  charges  against,  76, 
"77. 

LANCASHIRE,  Thomas,  75. 
Langton,  Roger,  35. 
Langtryc,  Edward,  notice  of,  32. 

,  Mrs.,  34. 

Lasct'Ues,  John,  60. 
Lathom,  Ilciiry,  35. 
Leach,  Robert.  78. 
Lcadebeatter,  Petter,  35. 

,  Robert,  35. 

Learovde,  rev.  Mr.,  77,  78. 

Leghs  of  Lyme,  81. 

Legh,  sir  Peter,  of  Lyme,  51,  53,  81,  91. 

,  Piers,  90. 

,  Richard,  of  Lyme,  extracts  from 

his  letters,  84,  85,  86,  87. 
Leigh,  lady  Dorothy,  of  Worsley,  notices 

of,  80-1, 

,  George,  46. 

,  sir  Petter,  13. 

,  rev.  William,  funeral  sermons  by, 

38,  39. 

,  Mr.,  of  Stoueleigh,  65. 

Leicester,  sir  Ralph,  of  Toft,  48. 
Leicester's  Commonwealth,  20. 
Leyer,  John,  55. 
Lightboiine,  James,  75. 
Lightoulers,  James,  57. 
Liverpool,  vessels  at,  21. 
Lloyde,  William,  of  Halton,  49. 
Lloyd,  Edward  J.,  76. 
Lomax,  Richard,  74,  75. 
Lowe,  Alexander,  54. 

,  Raufe,  55. 

Lownde,  Raphe,  78. 
Loyd,  Edward,  76. 
Lucas,  W.,  21. 
Lyon,  Jhon,  35. 

1\  /TALOWRSARSENECK,  eo.   Flint, 

Mainwaringe,  William,  of  Ightfield,  81. 
Mancringc,  Mr.,  31. 
Man,  isle  of,  military  provision  at,  21. 
Manchester  collegiate  church,  19,23, 76,79. 
Maney,  Walter,  88,  95. 
Marler,  John,  74. 
INIarsh,  George,  martyr,  7. 
Marston's  Masque,  71. 
Mary  queen  of  Scots,  trial  and  execution 
of,  21-3. 


Mason,  Gabryell,  35. 

Massey,  William,  13,  48. 

Meutas,  Hercules,  54. 

Meynell,  Anthony,  46. 

Midle  alias  Mowld,  co.  Salop,  12. 

Milton's  Arcades,  72. 

Molyneux  family,  60-1. 

,  Caryll  viscount,  46. 

,  Richard  viscount,  60. 

,  sir  Richard,  91. 

,  William,  of  Sefton,  41. 

Montague,  Henry  earl  of,  62. 
Moore  family,  56-8. 

,  Edward,  of  Banck  hall,  notices  of, 

56-8. 
Moore  Rental,  58. 
Morecrofte,  Henry,  13. 
Morgill,  Edward,  59. 
Morison,  sir  Charles,  54. 
Morley,  — ,  13. 

,  Edward  lord,  45. 

Moscroppe,  George,  13. 
Mosley  family,  54-6. 

,  Francis,  74. 

,  Nicholas,  74. 

,  Oswald,  54,  75. 

Mourning  cloth,  cost  of,  32-5. 
Murray,  warden,  78. 
Myldmay,  sir  Thomas,  3. 

NAVY,  book  of  the,  20. 
Nesklyffe,  co.  Salop,  12. 
Nestrandge,  co.  Salop,  12. 
Newton,  Marmaduke,  13. 
Norfolk,  Thomas  duke  of,  1. 
Norres  (of  DavyhiUme)  family,  43. 

(of  Speke)  family,  41-5  ;  Ormerod's 

Memoir,  43-5. 

,  Edward,  of  Speke,  41. 

,  sir  William,  of  Speke,  57,  91. 

Norris,  Henry,  46. 
Nugent,  Walter,  74. 

OGLE,  Henry,  of  Whiston,  59. 
Ogles,  Mary,  52. 
Orme,  Richard,  39. 
Ormeschurtche,  Derby  chapel  in,  12. 
Orrell,  Wm.,  14. 
Osbaldeston,  Mr.,  26. 
Osmownderley,  co.  Lane,  12. 
Otway,  sir  John,  75. 
Otwise,  Margaret,  78. 
Owen,  John,  80. 
Oxcliffe,  CO.  Lane,  12. 


INDEX. 


101 


PARKEE,  Edward,  13. 
Patteu,  William,  75. 
Peckham,  Edward  or  Edoiond,  88,  93. 
Pendleton,  Dr.,  8. 

,  George,  75. 

Phillips,  Shakspear,  76. 
Pole,  John,  of  Radbourne,  92, 
Pope,  burning  the,  84. 
Port,  sir  John,  88,  91. 
Pottes,  Mr.,  18. 
Pritchard,  Roger,  59. 
Pycroft,  Edward,  78. 

RADCLIFFE,  sir  Alexander,  of  Ord- 
sall,  48,  60. 

,  Egremont,  3. 

,  sir  Henry,  3. 

.  H.,  21, 

,  sir  John,  4,  19,  36,  37. 

,  John,  lord  Fitzwalter,  7. 

,  Margaret,  notices  of,  36-7. 

,  Robert,  earl  of  Sussex,  family  notices 

of,  53-4. 

,  Richard,  74. 

Radley,  William,  74. 

Raineforth,  co.  Lane,  12. 

Ramsey,  sir  John,  54. 

Reddish,  Oates,  46. 

Repton  grammar  school,  92. 

Ribble  water,  barques  in,  20. 

Richardson,  John,  20. 

Rigby,  Alexander,  of  Burgh,  56,  58. 

Rigbye,  Alexander,  13. 

Robinson,  Thomas,  78. 

Roby's  Traditions  of  Lancashire,  95. 

Rushtou,  Ann  widow  of  Ralph,  notice  of, 

33. 

,  Anne,  33. 

.,  aefferey,  33. 

Russell,  Anne,  36,  37. 

SALFORD  assessment,  (1586),  21. 
Salstonstall,  Richard,  55. 
Samlesbury  church,  6. 
Scarisbrick,  Edward,  notice  of,  32. 

,  H.,  21. 

,  Mawd,  12. 

Seager,  William,  Somerset  herald,  28. 

Seffetou,  To.,  35. 

Selby,  sir  Greorge,  61. 

Seymour,  WilUam,  marquis  of  Hertford, 

61. 
Sheale,  Richard,  extract  from  hia  Epitaph 

on  lady  Derby,  10. 


Sherborne,  John,  14. 

,  sir  Richard,  13,  19,  21. 

Shuttleworth,  Richard,  of  Gawthorp,  61. 

Simpkin,  Gerard,  75. 

Skillicorne,  William,  20. 

Smalwood,  Robert,  41. 

Smyth,  Symon,  35. 

Somre,  Edwarde,  35. 

Sonkey,  Edward,  of  Sonkey,  51. 

Spencer,  sir  John,  62 ;  sir  John  his  son,  66. 

Spenser,  Edmund,  quotation  from,  68. 

Staffortb,  — ,  13. 

Stanhop,  sir  Michael,  54. 

Stanley,  Alice,  52. 

,  Anne,  31,  32. 

,  Dorothe,  31,  32. 

,  Edward,  31,  35  ;  his  wife,  32. 

,  Edward,  of  Moor  hall,  35 ;  notice 

of,  33  ;  his  wife,  34. 

,  sir  Edward,  13  ;  notice  of,  40,  41. 

,  Francis,  13. 

,  Henry,  13. 

,  Henry,  of  Bickerstaffe,  notices  of, 

29-35  ;  his  wife,  31. 

,  James,  31. 

,  Peter,  of  Aughton,  30. 

,  The,  52,  61. 

,  Thomas,  bishop  of  Man,  9. 

,  sir  Thon:as,  of  Auderley,  49. 

,  William,  13,  14,  34. 

,  sir  William,  of  Hooton,  61. 

,  Mrs.,  52. 

Stopforth,  Claras,  14. 

,  Wm.,  13. 

Storton,  lord,  13. 

,  John,  14. 

,  Katherine,  13. 

Sutton,  Alice,  34. 

,  Edward,  33. 

,  William,  notice  of,  33. 

,  Mrs.,  34. 

TACEY,  rev.  Mr.,  78. 
Talbot,  sir  John,  of  Salebury,  45. 

,  Robert,  13. 

Tarbock,  Edward,  of  Tarbock,  42. 
Thompson,  John,  79. 
Thorneley,  co.  Lane,  12. 
Thraylles,  co.  Lane,  12. 
Tippinge,  Samuel,  74. 
Torrisholme,  co.  Lane,  12. 
Touchet,  James,  75. 

,  John,  75. 

Trafford,  sir  Edmund,  notices  of,  47-8. 


102 


INDEX. 


Trevor,  sir  Thomas,  of  Trevallin,  51. 
Turtoii,  Nicholrts,  of  Ecclcshall,  57. 
Tylsley,  Christopher,  of  Morley,  42. 


u 


LNESW ALTON,  co.  Lane.,  12,  13. 


"TTAVASOUE,  Thomas,  14,  46. 

WADINGTOX,  William,  35. 
Wall,  William,  mayor  of  Chester, 
20. 
Walle,  Laurence,  mayor  of  Preston,  20. 
Wallworth,  Koger,  35. 
Walsingliam,  lady,  36. 
Ward,  rev.  William,  53,  53. 
Waring,  To.,  35. 
Warren,  Edward,  26. 
Webster,  Kichard,  55. 


Westbic,  Tho.,  42. 

Wcstby,  Mr.,  8. 

Wef5tou,  Dr.,  8. 

Wetton,  CO.  Lane,  12. 

Whitaker's  Whalley,  53. 

Wilkinson,  Rye.,  35. 

Winter,  Gilbert,  76. 

Witch  trial,  95. 

Wolsey,  cardinal,  5. 

Woods,  George,  52. 

Woodward,  William,  of  Shevington,  39. 

Worslcy,  Rawfo,  31. 

,  Ralph,  74. 

Wriglitingtou,  John,  39. 
Wyer  river,  vessels  in,  20. 
Wyndlishaw,  co.  Lane,  90,  91. 
Wyngfeld,  Mrs.,  36. 

^ATES,  Mr.,  66,  75. 


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can  fail  to  be  grateful  to  Mr.  Smith  for  his  timely  and  most  valunblc 
labours.  Had  the  work  been  postponed  for  a  few  years,  the  probability  is 
that  much  of  the  information  which  lias  been  procured  would  have  been  no 
longer  attainable,  and  that  the  difficulty  of  collecting  materials  would  have 
ultimately  left  the  alumni  of  the  school  without  an  historian.  This  misfor- 
tune, for  such  it  would  unquestionably  have  been,  is  now  averted,  and  the 
readers  are  safely  lauded,  under  the  auspices  of  the  editor,  on  the  times  of 
living  memorv.  It  is  sincerely  to  be  hoped  that,  great  as  is  the  sacrifice  of 
time  and  attention  which  such  a  work  necessarily  entails,  and  the  amount 
of  which  those  only  know  who  have  been  engaged  in  similar  undertakings, 
he  will  be  enabled  to  give  us  the  further  fruits  of  his  researches,  and  to  con- 
tinue the  notices  of  scholars  from  the  death  of  Lawson  during  the  period  of 
the  head-mastership  of  his  much  respected  father,  Dr.  Jeremiah  Smith. 

The  third  and  last  publication  for  the  year  1807-8,  and  the  seventy-fourth 
in  the  Chetham  Series  is  Three  Lancashire  DoGwments  of  the  Fourteenth 
and  Fifteenth  Centuries,  edited  by  John  Hauland,  Esq.,  F.S.A.  namely: 

I.  The  Great  De  Lacy  Inq^uisition^  1311, 

II.  Rental  of  various  Manors  and  Places  in  the  Hundreds  of  West 

Derby ^  Amounderness  and  Lonsdale,  1320-46. 

III.  Custom  Roll  and  Rental  of  the  Manor  of  Assheton-under-Lyne, 
1421. 

The  three  Documents  embraced  in  this  volume  have  each  great  value  and 
interest,  and  it  was  suggested  by  the  able  Editor,  Mr.  Harland,  that  they 
W'ould  form  a  fitting  volume  for  the  Chetham  Series,  and  at  the  request  of 
the  Council,  and  notwithstanding  the  pressure  of  the  very  laborious  under- 
taking in  which  he  was  engaged,  he  obligingly  consented  to  edit  it  for  the 
Society.  The  first,  which  has  not  been  printed  before,  is  styled  by  Dr. 
Whitaker,  "That  most  exact  record,  the  inquisition  after  the  death  of  Henry 
de  Lacy,  the  last  Earl  of  Lincoln,  taken  a.d.  1311,"  and  "One  of  the  most 
valuable  documents  from  which  the  History  of  Whallcy  has  been  compiled." 
The  second,  which  likewise  appears  for  the  first  time,  and  is  printed  in  the 
original  Latin  with  a  translation  on  the  opposite  page,  is  the  remaining 


portion  of  the  great  Survey  of  1320-46,  relating  to  tlie  Hundreds  of  West 
Derby,  Amoiindcrness  and  Lonsdale,  the  portion  relating  to  the  Barony  and 
Manor  of  Manchester  having  been  printed  in  Mamecestre,  vol.  2.  The  MS. 
from  which  this  important  Survey  is  taken,  was  intrusted  to  the  Rev.  Canon 
Kaines,  with  permission  for  the  Council  to  make  any  use  of  it  they  might 
think  proper.  The  third,  the  Custom  Roll  and  Rental  of  the  Manor  of 
AsJito7i-uniler-Li/ne,  1422,  was  privately  printed  by  the  late  Dr.  Hibbert 
Ware,  F.R.S.,  as  an  appendix  to  a  very  interesting  dissertation  read  by  him 
before  the  Society  of  Scottish  Antiquaries  in  Edinburgh,  and  entitled 
"  Illustration  of  the  Customs  of  a  Manor  in  tlic  North  of  England  during  the 
fifteenth  Century."  This  appendix  has  become  exceedingly  rare,  and  the 
document  itself  is  well  \A-orthy  of  being  placed  within  the  general  reach  of 
the  antiquarian  public.  It  lias  therefore  been  joined  to  the  other  two  and 
the  whole,  edited  by  Mr.  Harland  with  his  usual  care,  will,  it  is  conceived, 
be  accepted  as  a  valuable  addition  to  the  Chetham  Series. 

The  last  two  volumes  are  nearly  ready,  and  wiil  be  issued  in  the  course  of 
a  few  weeks  to  the  Members. 

The  Council  have  to  express  their  regret  in  recording  the  death  of 
Edward  Hawkins,  Esq.,  F.R.S.,  P.S.A.,  F.L  S.,  so  long  connected  as  a 
most  efficient  officer  with  the  British  Museum,  and  so  well  known  as  an 
accomplisihed  numismatist  and  general  antiquary.  Mr.  Hawkins  had  been 
on  the  Council  of  the  Chetham  Society  since  its  commencement,  and  was 
editor  of  the  first  work  issued  by  the  Society,  Breretons  Travels,  and  of  the 
fifteenth  volume  in  the  series.  The  Lyfe  and  History  of  Saynt  Werhergh. 
He  took  considerable  interest,  particularly  in  its  earlier  days,  in  the  progress 
and  success  of  the  Society,  and  was  always  ready  to  assist  when  applied  to 
in  obtaining  materials,  or  in  making  the  treasures  of  the  British  Museum 
accessible  to  the  editors  of  its  various  works.  Nor  can  the  Council  pass 
over  without  notice  and  a  sincere  expression  of  sorrow  the  death  of  Dr. 
RusHTON,  Vicar  of  Blackburn  and  formerly  Archdeacon  of  Mancliester, 
who  was  for  some  time  on  the  Council  of  the  Chetham  Society,  and  only 
resigned  that  office  when  called  to  leave  the  neighbourhood  of  Manchester, 
and  whose  thorough  knowledge  of  Lancashire  localities  and  extensive 
information  were  always  at  the  service  of  the  other  members  of  the 
Council. 

The  publications  contemplated,  or  in  progress,  are : 

1.  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica,  Part  4.  By  the  Rev.  Thomas  Cohser, 
M.A.,  F.S.A. 


2.  TJic  Vlsllation  of  Lnncasldre  //^  1.532.  Edited  by  William  Langton, 
Escj. 

3.  The  Reijister  of  the  Manchester  Free  Grammar  School,  with  Notices 
a^id  Biographies  of  clist'utcjuished  Scholars.  Edited  by  the  Kev.  J.  Finch 
Smith,  .MA.,  Rector  of  AIdrid<:c.     Vol.  3, 

4.  A  Colled  ion  of  Ancient  Ballads  and  Pucms,  relating  to  Lancashire. 
Edited  by  John  Harland,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

5.  Worthingtons  Diary  and  Correspondence.  The  concluding  part. 
Edited  by  James  Cr'jsslky,  Esq.,  F.S.A. ,  President  oF  tlic  Chetliam 
Society. 

G.  Documents  relating  to  Edward  third  Earl  of  Derhy  and  the  Pil- 
grimage of  Grace.     By  R.  C.  Christie,  Esq.,  M.A. 

7.  A  Selection  from  the  Letters  of  Dr.  Dee,  with  an  introduction  of 
Collectanea  relating  to  his  Life  and  Worhs.  By  Thomas  Jones,  B.A., 
F.S.A.,  Librarian  of  Chetham's  Library. 

8.  Tracts  printed  in  the  Controversy  between  Sir  Thomas  Mainwaring 
and  Sir  Peter  Leycester,  as  to  the  legitimacy  of  Amicia,  daughter  of  Hugh 
Cyveliok,  Earl  of  Chester,  1673-9.  Collected  and  republished,  icith  an 
Introductory  Preface  and  Revieic  of  the  Controversy. 

.9.  Diary  of  John  Angler,  of  Denton.,  from  the  original  Manuscripts,  with 
a  reprint  of  the  Narrative  of  his  Life  published  in  \Q%5  by  Oliver  Heyieood. 

10.  A  Selection  from  Dr.  John  Byrom's  unprinted  Remains  in  Prose 
and  Verse. 

11.  A  new  Edition  of  the  Poems  Collected  and  Published  after  his 
Death,  corrected  and  revised,  with  Notes,  and  a  Prefatory  Sketch  of 
his  Life. 

12.  The  later  Heraldic  Visitations  of  Lancashire. 

13.  Hollinicorth' s  Mancuniensis.  A  new  Edition.  Edited  by  Canon 
Raines. 

14.  A  Volume  of  Extracts,  Depositions,  Letters,  ^c,  from  the  Con- 
sistory Court  of  Chester,  beginning  with  the  Foundation  of  the  See. 

1.5.  Extracts  from  Roger  Dodsworth's  Collections  in  the  Bodleian 
Library  at  Oxford  relating  to  Lancashire. 

16.  Annales  Cestrienses. 

17.  Chetham  Miscellanies.     Vol.  4. 

18.  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Funeral  Certificates. 

Id.  A  General  Index  to  volumes  XXX I.  to  LX.  of  the  Publications 
of  the  Chetham  Society. 


T/ie  Treasurer  in  Account  ivith  the  Cfiethain  Society,  /or  the  year  endimj  Zotit  February,  1888. 


DR, 


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h.  S.   D. 

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ported in  arrear  at  last  meeting. 

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ported in  arrear  at  last  meeting. 
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11  Subscriptions  for  1867-68  (25th  year),  ac- 

counted for  at  the  last  meeting. 

233  Collected  since 238    o    0 

50  Life  Members  reported  at  the  last 
meeting. 

2  since  dead. 
48 

1  Commuted  into  Life  Membership    10    o    0 

301 
49  Arrears. 

350 

12  Subscriptions  for  1868-69,  paid  in  ad- 

vance   12    0    0 

Books  sold  to  Members    32  14    6 

Book  Postage  received 0    16 

Dividends  on  Consols    7    6  11 

Interest  from  the  Bank 5  18    5 

£319    1    2 
Balance  from  last  year  1st  March,  1867    234    4  11 

£553    6    1 


1867,  L.  S.  D. 

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Feb.  29    Postages    2  11    3 

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CJetfiam  ^otitt^. 


LIST     OF     MEMBERS 

For  the  Year  1868  —  1869. 


The  Members,  to  ivhose  names  an  asterisk  is  prefixed,  have  compounded  for  their  Subscriptions. 


*  \  CKEES,  James,  Prinknash  Park,  near  Gloucester 
-iX     Adams,  George  Edward,  MA.,  F.S.A.,  Kouge- 
dragon,  College  of  Arms,  London 
Agnew,  Thomas,  Manchester 
Ainsworth,  Ralph  F.,  M.D.,  Manchester 
Allen,  Joseph,  Tombland,  Norwich 
Andrews,  Thomas,  Bolton 
Armitage,  Samuel,  Pendleton,  Manchester 
Armstrong,   Rev.  Thomas  Alfred,  M.A.,   Ashton   Par- 
sonage, Preston 
Ashton,  John,  Warrington 
Ashworth,  Henry,  The  Oaks,  near  Bolton 
Aspland,  Alfred,  Dukinfield 

Aspland,  Rev.  R.  B.,  Well  Street,  Hackney,  London 
Athenteum  Club,  London 
Athenseum,  Liverpool 
AthenjEum,  Library,  Boston,  U.S. 
♦Atherton,  Miss,  Kersall  Cell,  near  Manchester 
Atherton,  James,  Swinton  House,  near  Manchester 
Atkin,  William,  Little  Hulton,  near  Bolton 
Atkinson,  William,  Ashton  Heyes,  near  Chester 
Avison,  Thomas,  F.S.A.,  Liverpool 
Ayre,  Thomas,  TrafFord  Moss,  Manchester 

BAGSHAW,  John,  Manchester 
Bain,  James,  1,  Haymarket,  London 
Baker,  Thomas,  Brazennose  Street,  Manchester 
*Bannerman,  John,  York  Street,  Manchester 
•Barbour,  Robert,  Bolesworth  Castle,  near  Chester 
Barker,  John,  Broughton  Lodge,  Newton  in  Cartmel 
♦Barlow,  Mrs.,  Greenhill,  Oldham 
Barratt,  James,  Lymm  Hall,  near  "Warrington 
Barthes  &  Lowell,  14,  Great  Marlborough  Street,  Lon- 
don 
Bartlemore,  Miss,  Beechwood,  Rochdale 
Barton,  Richard,  Caldy  Manor,  Birkenhead 
Barton,  Samuel,  Whalley  Range,  Manchester 
Beamont,  William,  Orford  Hall,  Warrington 
Beever,  James  F.,  Manchester 
Bentley,  Rev.  T.  R,  M.A.,   St.  Matthew's  Rectory, 

Manchester 
Berlin  Royal  Library 

Beswicke,  Mrs.,  Pyke  House,  Littleborough 
Birchall,  Kev.  Jos.,  M.A.,  Church  Kirk,  Accrington 


Birmingham,  Borough  of.  Central   Free  Library,  Bir- 
mingham 
Birley,  Hugh,  M.P.,  Moorlands,  near  Manchester 
Birley,  Rev.  J.  S.,  M.A.,  Halliwell  Hall,  Bolton 
*Birley,  Thomas  H.,  Hart  Hill,  Eccles,  Manchester 
Blackburn  Free  Public  Library  and  Museum 
Blackburne,  John  Ireland,  Hale,  near  Warrington 
Bolton  Public  Library,  Bolton-le-Moors 
Booker,  Rev.  John,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Sutton,  Surrey 
Booth,  Benjamin  W.,  Swinton,  near  Manchester 
Booth,  John,  Greenbank,  Monton,  Eccles 
Booth,  William,  Holly  Bank,  Cornbrook,  Manchester 
Boston,  U.  S.,  Public  Library 
Bourne,    Cornelius,   Stalmine    Hall,   Fleetwood,    near 

Preston 
Bower,  Miss,  Old  Park,  Bostol,  Abbey  wood,  London  S.E 
Bowers,  The  Very  Rev.  G.  H.,  D  D.,  Dean  of  Manchester 
Brackenbury,  Miss,  Brunswick  Terrace,  Brighton 
Bradshaw,  John,  Jun.,  Manchester 
*Bridgemau,  Hon.  and  Rev.  George  Thomas  Orlando, 

MA.,  Rectory,  Wigan. 
Bridson,  J.  Ridgway,  Crompton  Fold,  Bolton,  and  Belle 

Isle,  Windermere 
Brierley,  Rev.  James,  MA.,  Mosley  Moss  Hall,  Congle- 

ton 
♦Brooke,  Thomas,  Armitage  bridge,  near  Huddersfield 
»Brooks,  W.  Cunliffe,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Barlow  Hall,  Man- 
chester 
Brown,  Mrs  ,  Winckley  Street,  Preston 
Browne,  William  Henry,  Chester 
Buckley,  Sir  Edmund,  Bart.,  M.P.,  Dinas  Mowddwy 
Buckley,  Nathaniel,  F.L.S.,  Rochdale 
Bunting,  Thomas  Percival,  Manchester 
Bury  Co-operative  Society,  Bury,  Lancashire 

CAINE,  Rev.  William,  M.A.,  Chaplain  County  Gaol, 
M  an  Chester 
Cambridge,  Christ's  College  Library 
Cassels,    Rev.   Andrew,   M.A.,    Batley  Vicarage,   near 

Dewsbury 
♦Chadwick,  Elias,  M.A.,  Pudlestone  Court,  Hereford- 
shire 
Chichester,  The  Bishop  of 
Christie,  R.  C,  M.A.,  Manchester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


•Churchill,  William,  Brinnington  Lodge,  near  Stockport 
•Clare,  John  Leigh,  Liverpool 
Clarke,  Archibald  William,  Scotscroft,  Didsbury 
Clegg,  Thomas,  Manchester 

Cooke,  Thomas,  Rusholme  Hall,  near  Manchester 
Corser,  Rev.  Thomas,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Stand,  near  Man- 
chester 
•Cottam,  Samuel,  Wightwick  House,  Manchester 
Coulthart,  John  Ross,  Ashton-undcr-Lyne 
•Crawford  and  Balcarres,  The  Earl  of,  Haigh  Hall,  near 

Wigan 
Cross,  William  Assheton,  Red  Scar,  Preston 
Crosse,  Thomas  Bright,  Shaw  Hill,  near  Chorley 
Crossley,  George  F.,  Beech  Tree  Bank,  Prestwich 
Crossley,  James,  F.S.A.,  Manchester,  President 
Crossley,    Croslegh  Dampier,   Scaitcliffe   House,   Tod- 

morden 
Cunningham,  William  Alexander,  ?Janchester 

DARBISHIRE,  Samuel  D.,Pendyffryn,  near  Conway 
Darwell,  Thomas,  Manchester 
Dean,  Rev.  Thomas,  M.A.,  Warton,  near  Lancaster 
Dearden,  Thomas  Ferrand,  Rochdale 
•Derby,  The  Earl  of,  Knowsley,  Prescot 
Delamere,  The  Lord,  Vale  Royal,  near  Northwich 
Devonshire,  The  Duke  of,  Holker,  Cartmel  ^ 

Dilkc,  Sir  C.  W.,  Bart ,  76,  Sloane  Street,  London 
Dixon,  Jas.,  Ormskirk 
Dobson,  William,  Preston 
Downes,  W.  F.,  Manchester 
Doxey,  Rev.  J.  S  ,  Milnrow,  Rochdale 
Durnford,  The  Ven.  Richard,  M.A.,  Rectory,  Middle- 
ton,  Archdeacon  and  Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester 

EARLE,  Frederic  William,  Edenhurst,  near  Huyton 
Eccles,  Richard,  AVigan 
Eckersley,  Thomas,  Wigan 
Egerton,  Sir  Philip  de  Malpas  Grey,  Bart.,  M.P.,  Oulton 

Park,  Tarporley 
Egerton,  The  Lord,  Tatton  Park,  Knutsford 
Ellesmere,  The  Earl  of,  Worsley  Hall 
Ellison,  Cuthbert  E.,  Worship  Street,  London 
Ethelston,  Rev.  Hart,  M.A.,CheethamHill,  Manchester 

FEILDEN,  Joseph,  M.P.,  Witton,  near  Blackburn 
♦Fenton,    James,    M.A.,    F.S.A.,    Norton    Hall, 
Mickleton  Chipping  Campden,  Gloucestershire 
Femley,  John,  Southport 
Ffarington,  Miss,  Worden  Hall,  near  Preston 
•Fielden,  Samuel,  Centre  Vale,  Todinorden 
Fisher,  William,  Lancaster  Banking  Co.,  I'reston 
Fishwick,  Major,  Carr  Hill,  Rochdale 
Fleming,  William,  M.D.,  Rowton  Grange,  Chester 
•Fort,  Richard,  MP.,  Read  Hall,  Padiham 
Forster,  John,  Palace  Gate  House,  Kensington,  London 
Frere,  W,  E.,  42,  Clarges  Street,  London 

GARNETT,  Wm.  James,  Quernmore  Park,  Lancaster 
Gibb,  William,  Swinton  Lodge,  Manchester 
Gladstone,  Murray,  F.R.A.S  ,  Broughton,  Manchester 
♦Gladstone,  Robert,  Highfield,  near  Manchester 


Goss,  Right  Rev.  A.,  D.D.,  St.  Edward's  College,  Liver 

pool 
•Greenall,  Gilbert,  M. P.,  Walton  Hall,  near  Warring 

ton 
Grcenhalgh,  Rev.  Henry  Canon,  Weldbank,  Chorley 

HADFIELD,  George,  M.P.,  Manchester 
Hailstone,  Edward,  F.S.A.,  Horton  Hall,  Brad 
ford,  Yorkshire 
Hardman,  Henry,  Bury,  Lancashire 
Hardy,  William,  F.S  A.,  Duchy  of  Lancaster  Office,  Lon 

don 
Hargreaves,  George  J.,  Piccadilly,  Manchester 
Harland,  John,  F.S. A.,    Oheetham  Hill,  near  Man- 
chester 
Harris,  George,  F.S. A.,  Begistrar  of  the  Couit  of  Bank 

ruptcy,  Manchester 
Harrison,  William,   Rock  Mount,  St.  John's,  Isle  o 

Man. 
•Harrison,  William,  F.S.A.,  FG.S,  F.R.S.,  Antq.   di 

Nord,  Samlesbury  Hall,  near  Blackburn 
Harter,  James  Collier,  Leamington 
•Harter,  William,  Hope  Hall,  near  Manchester 
Hatton,  James,  Richmond  House,  near  Manchester 
Healey,  Henry,  Smallbridge,  Rochdale 
Heelis,  Stephen,  Manchester 
•Henderson,  Rev.  John,  Parsonage,  Colne 
*Henry,  W.  C,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  Hafficld,  near  Ledbury 
Heron,  Rev.  George,  M.A.,  Carrington,  Cheshire 
Heywood,  Arthur  Henry,  Manchester,  Treasurer 
Heywood,  Sir  Thos.  Peicival,  Bart.,  Doveley's,  Ash- 
bourne 
Heywood,  James,  F.R.S.,  F.G.S.,  26,  Palace  Gardens 

Kensington,  London 
Heywood,  Thomas,  Pendleton,  near  Manchester 
Heywood,  Rev.  Henry  R.,  M.A  ,  Swinton,  Manchester 
Hickson,  Charles,  Manchester 
Higson,  .lames,  Ardwick  Green  North,  Manchester 
Higson,  John,  Birch  Cottage,  Lees,  near  Oldham 
Hilton,  William  Hughi  s,  Booth  Street,  Manchester 
Hoare,  P.  R.,  Kelsey  Park,  Beckenham,  Kent 
Holden,  Thomas,  Springfield,  Bolton-le-Moors 
Holdsworth,  John,  Eccles 
•Hoghton,  Sir  Henry  de,  Bart. 
Hornby,  Rev.  George,  B.D. 
Hornby,  Rev.  William,  M.A  ,  St.  Michael's,  Garstang, 

Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester 
Howard,  Edward  C,  Brinnington  Hall,  Stockport 
Howard,  The  Honorable  Richard  Edward,  D  C.L,  Man- 
chester 
Howarth.  Henry  H.,  Castleton  Hall,  Rochdale 
Hughes,  Thomas,  F.S. A.,  Grove  Terrace,  Chester 
Hull,  William  Winstanlcy,  The  Knowle,  Belper 
*Hulton,  Rev.  C.  G.,  M.A.,  Emberton,  Newport  Pagncl, 

Bucks 
Hulton,  W.  A.,  Hurst  Grange,  Preston 
Hume,  Rev.  A.,  LL.D.,  D  C.L.,  F.S.A.,  Liverpool 
Hutchinson,  Robt.  Hopwood,  Tenter  House,  Rochdale 

1  NDEPENDENT  College,  Manchester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


JACSON,  Charles  R.,  Barton  Lodge,  Preston 
Jervis,  Thomas  B.,  Ambleside 
Johnson,  Jabez,  Pennington  Hall,  near  Manchester 
Johnson,  W.  R.,  The  Cfiffe,  Wybunbury,  Nantwich 
Jones,  Jos.,  Abberley  Hall,  Stourport 
Jones,  Wm.  Roscoe,  Athenreum,  Liverpool 
Jones,  Thomas,  B.\.,  F.S.A  ,  Chetham  Library,  Man- 
chester 
Jordan,  Joseph,  F.R.C.S.,  Manchester 

KAY,  Samuel,  Oakley  House,  Weaste,  Manchester 
Kemp,  George  Awke,  Eochdale 
Kennedy,  Jno.  Lawson.,  Aidwick  Hall,  Manchester 
Kershaw,  James,  Manchester 

Kershaw,  John,  Cross  Gate,  Audenshaw,  near  Man- 
chester 

LANGTON,  William,  Manchester 
Law,  Wm.  Bent  House,  Littleborough,  Rochdale 
Lees,  Rev.  "William  F.,  M.A.,  Sedlow  Parsonage,  Reigate 
Legh,  G.  Cornwall,  M.P.,  F.G.S.,  High  Legh,  Knuts- 

ford 
•Leigh,  Major  Egerton,  Jodrell  Hall,  Holmes  Chapel 
Leigh,  Henry,  Patricroft 

Leigh,  Miss,  The  Limes,  Hale,  near  "Warrington 
Lingard,  John  R.,  Stockport 
Lingard,  Rev.  R.  R.,  M.A.,  Tay  Bank,  Dundee 
Litler,  H.  W.,  Oldham 
Lowndes,  Edward  C,  Preston 
*Loyd,  Edward,  Lillesden,  Hawkhurst,  Kent 
*Loyd,  Lewis,  Monks  Orchard,  Bromley,  Kent 
Lycett.  "W.  E.,  Manchester 
Lyon,  George,  Manchester 

McCLURE,  William,  Piccadilly,  Manchester 
MacKenzie,  John  Whitefoord,  Edinburgh 

Makinson,  A.  W.,  18,  Abingdon  Street,  Westminster 

Manchester  Chetham  Library 

Manchester  Free  Library 

♦Manchester,  The  Bishop  of 

Manchester  Union  Club 

Mann,  Robert,  Manchester 

Mare,  E.  R.  Le,  Manchester 

♦Marriott,  John,  Liverpool 

Marsden,  Rev.  J.  H.,  B.D.,  F.R.G.S.,  Canon  of  Man- 
chester 

^larsden,  G.  E.,  Manchester 

♦Marsh,  John  Fitchett,  Warrington 

Mason,  Hugh,  Groby  Lodge,  Ashton-under-Lyne 

Massie,  Rev.  E.,  M.A.,  Gawsworth  Rectory,  near  Con- 
gleton 

Master,  The  Ven.  Archdeacon,  M.A.,  Croston 

Mayer,  Joseph,  F.S  A.,  Lord-street,  Liverpool 

Melbourne  Public  Library 

Mellor,  Thomas,  F.R.C.S  ,  Oxford  Road.  Manchester 

Miller,  James,  Manchester  and  Liverpool  District  Bank, 
Manchester 

Monk,  John.  Q.C.,  The  Temple,  London 

•Mosley,  Sir  Oswald,  Bart.,  Rolleston  Hall,  Staffordshire 

*Moss,  Rev.  John  James,  Otterspool,  Liverpool 

Moult,  William,  Parkside,  Prescot 


Murray,  James,  Manchester 

■"VTAYLOR,  Benjamin  Dennison,  Altrincham 
i-^      *Neild,  Jonathan,  Jun.,  Eochdale 
Newall,  Henry,  Hare  Hill,  Littleborough. 
Newall,  W.  S.,  Ackworth  House,  Pontefract 
♦Newbery,  Henry,  Docklands,  Ingatesione,  Essex 
Nicholson,  James,  F.S. A.,  Thelwall  Hall,  Warrington 

OEMEROD,  George,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  F.G.S., 
Sedbury  Park,  Gloucestershire 
Ormerod,  Henry  Mere,  Manchester 
Owen,  John,  Stietford  Road,  Hulme,  Manchester 
Oxford,  All  Souls'  College 
Oxford,  Brasenose  College 

*  "pAEKER,    Robert   Townley,   Cuerden   Hall,    near 
-l  Preston 

Parker,  Eev.  Arthur  Townley,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of 
Manchester,  Eoyle,  Burnley 

Parkinson,  .Miss,  Ann's  Hill,  Cockermouth 

Parkinson,  Colonel,  Eppleton  Hall,  Fence  Houses. 
Durham 

♦Patten,  Et.  Honble.  J.  Wilson,  M.P.,  Bank  Hall,  War- 
rington 

Pedder,  Richard,  Preston 

Peel,  George,  Brookfield,  Cheadle 

Peel,  Jonathan,  Knowlmere  Manor,  near  Clitheroe 

Perris,  John,  Lyceum,  Liverpool 

Philippi,  Frederick  Theod.,  Belfield  Hall,  near  Rochdale 

♦Philips,  Mark,  The  Park,  Manchester 

Piccope,  Eev  G.  J.,  M.A.,  Yarrell,  "^''ansford,  North- 
amptonshire 

Picton,  J.  A.,  F.S.A.,  Clayton  Square,  Liverpool 

Pierpoint,  Benjamin,  Warrington 

Pitcairn,  Eev.  J.  P.,  M.A.,  "Vicarage,  Eccles 

♦  Piatt,  John,  M.P.,  Werneth  Park,  Oldham 
Poolev,  W.  0.,  Manchester 

Porrett,  Robert,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  &c.,  49,  Bernard  Street, 
Russell  Square,  London 

*Prescott,  J.  B. 

Price,  Rev.  Henry  H.,  M.A.,  Ash  Parsonage,  Whit- 
church, Salop 

RADFOED,  Richard,  Manchester 
Radford,  Thomas,  M.D.,  Higher  Broughton,  near 
Manchester 
Raine,  Rev.  James,  M.A.,  Prebend  of  York 
Raines,  Eev.  F.  R.,  M.A.,  F.S.A.,  Vicar  of  Milnrow  and 

Hon.  Canon  of  Manchester,  Tice  Presidoit 
Ramsbotham,    James,   Crowboro'    Warren,    Tunbridge 

Wells 
Redhead,  E.  Milne,  M.A.,  F.L.S  ,  F.R.G.S.,    Seedley, 

Manchester 
Eeiss,  Mrs.,  Broom  House,  near  Manchester 
Renaud,  Frank,  M.D.,  Piccadilly,  Manchester 
Reynolds,  Rev.  George  "W.,  Diocesan  Chiuxh  Building 

Society,  Manchester 
Rhodocanakis,   H.   H.   The   Prince,   C.K.G.,   PhD., 

F.S. A. A.,  F.G.H.S.,  Higher  Broughton,  Manchester 
Rickards,  Charles  H.,  Manchester 


LIST    OF    MEMBERS. 


Rigby,  Samuel,  Rruch  Hall,  "Warrington 

•  Roberts.  Chas.  H .  Crompton,  Sunnysidc,  Upper  Avenue 

Road,  Regent's  Park,  London 
Roberts,  Alfred  Wni.,  Larkiicld,  Rochdale 
Robinson,  Dixon,  Clitheroe  Castle,  Clitlieroe 
Robson,  John,  M.D.,  Warrington 
Rochdale  Library 
Royds,  Albert  Hudson,  Rochdale 
Roylc,  Alan,  Hartford  Hill,  near  Northwich 
Rushton,  James,  Forrest  House,  Newchurch 
Ryle,  Rev.  John  Charles,  MA.,  Stradbroke  Vicarage, 

Suffolk 

SALISBURY,  Enoch  Gibbon,  Glan  Aber,  Chester 
Satterfield,  Joshua,  Alderley  Edge,  near  Manchester 

Schofield,  Wm.  Whitworth,  Buckley  Hal!,  Rochdale 

♦Scholes,  Thomas  Seddon,  Dale  Street,  Leamington 

Sharp,  John,  Lancaster 

Sharp,  William,  102,  Piccadilly,  London 

Shaw,  George,  St.  Chad's  Upper  Mills,  Saddleworth 

Shepherd's  Library,  Kreston 

Shuttleworth,  Sir  J.  P.  Kay,  Bart.,  M.D.,  Gawthorpe 
Hall,  Burnley 

Simms,  Charles  S.,  Manchester 

Simpson,  John  Hope,  Bank  of  Liverpool 

Simpson,  Rev.  Samuel,  M.A.,  Thelgreaves,  near  Lan- 
caster 

Sion  College,  The  Master  of,  London 

Skaife,  John,  Union  Street,  Blackburn 

Skelmersdale,  The  Lord,  Lathom  House,  near  Ormskirk 

Smith,  Rev.  J.  Finch,  M.A.,   Aldridge  Rectory,   near 
Walsall 

Smith,  J.  R.,  Soho  Sqiiare,  London 

Smith,  Fereday,  Manchester 

Smith,  R.  M.,  Timperley 

Sowler,  R.  S.,  Q C,  Manchester 

Sowler,  John,  Manchester 

SpafFord,  George,  Brown  Street,  Manchester 

Standish,  W.  S.  C,  Duxbury  Hall,  Chorley 

•Stanley,   The   Lord,   Knowsley,   Prescot,   and   The 
Albany,  London 

•Stanley  of  Alderley,  The  Lord,  Alderley,  Congleton 

Stradbroke  Vicarage,  Suffolk 

Sudlow,  John,  Manchester 

Swindells,  G.  A.  Ancoats  Grove,  Manchester 

n^ABLEY,  The  Lord  de,  Tabley  House,  Knutsford 
-L      Tate,  Wm.  James,  Manchester 
Tatton,  Thos.,  W-  Wythenshawe  Hall,  Cheshire 
•Taylor,  James,  Todmorden  Hall,  Todmorden 
Taylor,  James,  Whiteley  Hall,  Wigan 
Taylor,  John,  Moreton  Hall,  Whalley 
Taylor,  Mrs.  T.,  Knutsford 
Taylor,  Rev.  W.  H.,  M.A.,  Farnworth 


Taylor,  Thomas  Frederick,  Wigan 
Tcale,  Josh.,  F.R.CS.,  Salford 

Thicknesse,  Rev.  F.  H.,  M.A.,  Hon.  Canon  of  Man- 
chester, Deane  Vicarage,  Bolton 
♦Thompson,  Joseph,  Woodlands,  Fulshaw 
Thompson,  James,  Chronicle  Office,  Leicester 
Thorley,  George,  Manchester 
Thorp,  Henry,  Manchester 
Threlfall,  Richard,  Hollowforth,  Preston 
•Tootal,  Edward,  The  Weaste.  Eccles 
Tonge,  Rev.  Richard,  M.A.,  The  Rectory,  Heaton 

Mersey 
Townend,  John,  Shadsworth  Hall,  Blackburn 
Towneley,  Colonel  Chas,  F.S.  A.,Towneley  Park,  Burnley 
Trafford,  Sir  Humphrey  de,  Bart.,  Trafford  Park,  Man- 
chester 
Turner,  Thomas,  F.R.CS  ,  Manchester 
Turner,  Rt.  Rev.  W.,  D.D.,  Crescent,  Salford 
Tweedale,  A.  A.,  Spring  Cottage,  near  Rochdale 

VAUGHAN,  John  Lingard,  Stockport 
Vitre,  Edward  Denis  de,  M.D.,  Lancaster 

WANKLYN,  James  H.,  Manchester 
Wanklyn,  William  Trevor,  Manchester 
Warburton,  R.  E.  Egerton,  Arley  Hall,  near  Northwich 
Ward,  Edmund,  Holly  House.  Prescot 
•Ward,  Jos.  Pilkington,  Whalley  Range.  Manchester 
Ware,  Titus  Hibbert,  Hale  Barns,  Altrincham 
Westhead,  Joshua  P.  B.,  Lea  Castle,  Kidderminster 
•Westminster,  The  Marquis  of,  Eaton  Hall,  Chester 
Wheeler,  Benjamin,  Manchester 

Whitaker,  Rev.  Robert  Nowell,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  Whalley 
Whitaker,  W.  W.,  St.  Ann's  Street,  Manchester 
Whitehead,  James,  M.D.,  Manchester 
Whitelegg,  Rev. William,  M.A.,  Hulme,  Manchester 
Whittaker,  Rev.  Robt.  M.A.,  Leesfield,  Oldham 
Whitworth,  Robert,  Courtown  House,  Manchester 
Wilkinson,  Eason  Matthew,  M.D.,  Manchester 
Wilkinson,  T.  T..  Cheapside,  Burnley 
•Wilton,  The  Earl  of,  Heaton  House,  near  Manchester 
Wood,  Richard  Henry,  F.S. A.,  Crumpsall,  Manchester, 

Honorary  Secretary 
Woods,  Albert  W.,  F  S.A.,  Lancaster  Herald,'  College  of 

Arms,  London 
Wood,  Richard,  Cornville  House,  Whalley  Range,  Man. 

Chester 
Worthington,  Edward,  23,  Ladbroke  Garden,  London 

"Y^ATES,  Edward,  Liverpool 

X      York  Subscription  Library,  York 
Young,  Sir  Charles  G.,  F.S. A.,  Garter  King  of  Arms, 
London 


The  Honorary  Secretary  requests  that  any  change  of  address  may  be  commimicated  to  him 

or  to  the  Treasurer. 


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